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FROM    THE   LIBRARY   OF 
REV.    LOUIS    FITZGERALD    BENSON.   D.  D. 

BEQUEATHED    BY    HIM   TO 

THE   LIBRARY  OF 

PRINCETON   THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY 


Division 
Section 


The  History  of  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


EXTERIOR    OF    PRESENT    TABERNACLE 
Thirty-fourth   Street  and  Broadway 


THE   HISTORY 

OF    THE 

BROADWAY  TABERNACLE 
CHURCH 

FROM  ITS  ORGANIZATION  IN  1840 

TO    THE    CLOSE    OF    1900, 

INCLUDING  FACTORS 

INFLUENCING  ITS 

FORMATION 

SUSAN    HAYES  WARD 


New   York 
1901 


Copyright,  1 901,  by 
The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


The  Trow  Print 

New  York 


Introductory  Note 

THIS  volume  marks  the  last  goal  in  the  celebration  of 
the  Sixtieth  Anniversary  of  the  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle. When  the  celebration  committee  came  together  for  the 
first  time,  the  pastor  outlined  before  them  his  scheme  for  a 
suitable  observance  of  the  occasion  and  proposed,  among 
chief  permanent  results  to  be  desired,  a  printed  History  of 
the  Church.  Behind  it  lay  a  great  past,  whose  memorials 
ought  to  be  gathered  up,  before  they  slipped  from  the 
knowledge  of  living  men,  and  placed  on  record  for  the  gen- 
erations to  come.  One  of  the  senior  members  of  the  church, 
Mrs.  Chas.  Abernethy,  adding  another  proof  of  the  love  and 
devotion  of  many  years  in  the  Tabernacle,  both  on  her  own 
part  and  that  of  her  lamented  husband,  came  forward  with  a 
gift  so  generous  as  to  insure  the  publication.  The  History 
covers  a  period  of  sixty  years,  and  a  few  months  more,  in 
order  to  bring  it  up  to  the  beginning  of  the  twentieth  century. 
The  author,  a  former  member  of  this  church,  has  done  her 
work  with  genuine  enthusiasm  ;  and  if  any  errors  or  inequali- 
ties appear,  they  are  due  to  the  limited  time  which  was 
allowed  for  preparation,  and  not  to  indifference  to  the  im- 
portance of  thorough  investigation  nor  lack  of  energy  in  its 
pursuance. 

By  the  Church  History  Committee. 

New  York,  June  i,  1901. 


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Contents 


The  Old  New  England  Way 
Chronological  Record 

CHAPTER 

I.  Hinderances  to  Congregationalism 

II.  Dr.  Finney's  Work  in  New  York     . 

III.  The  Founding  of  the  Church  . 

IV.  The  First  Pastorate 
V.  The  Second  Pastor,  Joseph  P.  Thompson 

VI.  From  the  Old  to  the  New  Tabernacle 

VII.  The  Third  Pastor,  William  M.  Taylor 

VIII.  The  Fourth  and  Fifth  Pastorates     . 

IX.  Church  Activities       .... 

X.  The  Sixtieth  Anniversary 


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Appendix 


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A.  Plan  of  Union,  1801 

B.  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  Principles  and  Rules,  1836 

C.  Articles  of  Christian  Faith  and  Church  Government,  1840  226 

D.  Preamble  and  Resolution  Concerning  Charities,  1841          .  229 

E.  Articles  of  Faith  and  Covenant,   1846 230 

F.  Resolutions  as  to  Absentees,   1851  and  1853         .         .        .232 

G.  Conditions  of  Membership  of  Society,   1855           .        .         .  233 
H.  Publications  by  Dr.  J.  P.  Thompson 234 

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I.  Some  Appreciations  of  Dr.  Thompson . 

J.  Publications  of  Dr.  William  M.  Taylor 

K.  Dr.  Taylor's  Resignation,   1892 

L.  Acceptance  of  Dr.  Taylor's  Resignation,   ii 

M.  Admission  of  Members,  etc.,   1901 

N.  Offieers  of  Church  and  Society 

0.  Chronological  List  of  Members 

P.  Summary  of  Additions  and  Removals  . 


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Illustrations 


Exterior  of  Present  Tabernacle      .... 

Interior  of  First  Tabernacle  in  Anniversary  Week 

David  Hale 

Samuel  Pitts 

Rev.  Edward  W.  Andrews     . 

Rev.  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  D.D.,   LL.D. 

Audience  Room  of  Present  Tabernacle 

Memorial  Tablet  to  Dr.  Thompson 

Rev.  William  M.  Taylor,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Memorial  Tablet  to  Dr.  Taylor     . 

Rev.  Henry  A.  Stimson,  D.D. 

Chapel  of  Present  Tabernacle 

Parlors  of  Present  Tabernacle 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Jefferson,  D.D.    . 


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The  Old  New  England  Way 

//  the  Reader  shall  demand  how  far  this  way  of  Church- 
proceeding  receives  approbation  by  any  common  concurrence 
amongst  us:  /  shall  plainly  and  punctually  express  my  self 
in  a  word  of  truth,  in  these  following  points,  viz. 

Visible  Saints  are  the  only  true  and  meet  matter,  whereof 
a  visible  Church  should  be  gathered,  and  confoederation  is 
the  form. 

The  Church  as  To  turn  essentiale,  is,  and  may  be,  before 
Officers. 

There  is  no  Presbyteriall  Church  {i.e.  A  Church  made  up 
of  the  Elders  of  many  Congregations  appointed  Classickwise, 
to  rule  all  those  Congregations)  in  the  N.  T. 

A  Church  Congregationall  is  the  first  subject  of  the  keys. 

Each  Congregation  compleatly  constituted  of  all  Officers, 
hath  sufficient  power  in  her  self,  to  exercise  the  power  of  the 
keyes,  and  all  Church  discipline,  in  all  the  censures  thereof. 

Ordination  is  not  before  election. 

There  ought  to  be  no  ordination  of  a  Minister  at  large, 
Namely  such  as  should  make  him  Pastour  without  a  People. 

The  election  of  the  people  hath  an  instrumentall  causall 
vertue  under  Christ,  to  give  an  outward  call  unto  an  Officer. 

Ordination  is  only  a  solemn  installing  of  an  Officer  into 
the  Office,  unto  which  he  was  formerly  called. 

Children  of  such,  who  are  members  of  Congregations, 
ought  only  to  be  baptized. 

The  consent  of  the  people  gives  a  causall  vertue  to  the 
compleating  of  the  sentence  of  excommunication. 

Whilst  the  Church  remains  a  true  Church  of  Christ,  it  doth 
not  loose  this  power,  nor  can  it  lawfully  be  taken  away. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Consociation  of  Churches  should  be  used,  as  occasion  doth 
require. 

Such  consociations  and  Synods  have  allowance  to  counsell 
and  admonish  other  churches  as  the  case  may  require. 

And  if  they  grow  obstinate  in  errour  or  sinful  miscarriages, 
they  should  renounce  the  right  hand  of  fellowship  with  them. 

But  they  have  no  power  to  excommunicate. 

Nor  do  their  constitutions  bind  formaliter  and  juridice. 

In  all  these  I  have  leave  to  professe  the  joint  judgement 
of  all  the  Elders  upon  the  river:  Of  New-haven,  Guilford,  Mil- 
ford,  Stratford,  Fairfield;  and  of  most  of  the  Elders  of  the 
Churches  in  the  Bay,  to  whom  I  did  send  in  particular,  and 
did  receive  approbation  from  them,  under  their  hands:  Of 
the  rest  (to  whom  I  could  not  send)  I  cannot  so  affirm;  but 
this  I  can  say,  That  at  a  common  meeting,  /  zuas  desired  by 
them  all,  to  publish  what  now  I  do. 

Thomas  Hooker. 

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Chronological  Record 

1829.  October    13.     Union    Presbyterian    Church    organized. 
Rev.  Charles  G.   Finney  held  revival  services  with  it 

during  the  winter. 

1830.  Spring.    One  hundred  and  three  converts  joined  Union 

Presbyterian    Church.      First    Free    Presbyterian 
Church  formed. 
June  27.     Rev.  Joel  Parker  began  ministering  to  the 
church. 

1 83 1.  July.     Plan  for  a  large  audience-room  for  Mr.  Finney 

agitated. 
December  31.    Congregational  Church  organized.    Rev. 
Joseph  Harrison,  pastor. 

1832.  February  14.    Second  Free  Presbyterian  Church  organ- 

ized.    Chatham  Street  Theatre  leased  for  its  use. 
April  23.    Chatham  Street  Chapel  dedicated. 
Mr.  Finney  accepts  call  to  the  church. 
Cholera  summer. 
October   5.     Mr.   Finney   installed   and   stricken   with 

cholera. 

1833.  January  20.     Protracted   meeting  begun   in   Chatham 

Street  Chapel. 
April  26.    Mr.  Finney  resumed  work  after  illness. 
October    2.      New    York    City    Anti-Slavery    Society 

formed  at  the  chapel,  and  attacked  by  mob. 
November  2.    Rev.  Joel  Parker  dismissed  to  minister  to 

church  in  New  Orleans. 
Mr.  Finney  abroad  for  his  health.    Rev.  John  Ingersoll, 

co-pastor  during  his  absence. 

1834.  Summer.    Mob  riots. 

November  8.    Mr.  Finney  resumed  his  ministerial  work, 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

1835.  February.     Mr.  Finney  appointed  Professor  of  Theol- 

ogy at  Oberlin,  O. 

March  21.     Accepts  appointment. 

May.     Building  of  Broadway  Tabernacle  begun. 

December.  Great  fire  in  New  York.  Mr.  Finney  re- 
turned from  Oberlin  for  winter  preaching. 

1836.  March  2.    Mr.  Finney  dismissed  from  Presbytery. 
March  13.     Sixth  Free  Church  organized  as  Broadway 

Tabernacle  (Congregational)  Church,  120  members. 
April.     Tabernacle  Building  completed. 
April  10.    Mr.  Finney  installed  over  Tabernacle  Church. 

1837.  January   18.     Convention  in  Broadway   Tabernacle  of 

Congregational  ministers  and  churches  of  Southern 
New  York.    Nineteen  ministers  present. 

Spring.     Mr.  Finney  resigned  because  of  ill-health. 

June.     Rev.  George  Duffield,  acting  pastor. 

September.  Rev.  Jacob  Helffenstein  accepted  call  to 
First  Free  Church  (Dey  Street). 

1838.  April.     First   Free   Presbyterian    Church    united   with 

Broadway  Tabernacle. 

September.  Letters  of  resignation  offered  by  both  pas- 
tors, accepted  by  church. 

October  4.    Call  given  to  Mr.  Parker. 

November  17.     Mr.  Parker  began  ministrations. 

December  19.  Mr.  Tappan  cited  to  appear  before  ses- 
sion on  charge  of  disorderly  and  unchristian  con- 
duct. 

December  21.  Anti-Slavery  Society  formed  in  Taber- 
nacle. Constitution  signed  by  more  than  eighty  mem- 
bers of  church. 

1839.  January  19.     Session  excluded  Mr.  Tappan  from  com- 

munion of  the  church  for  "  contumacy." 
January  21.     Church  meeting  called  by  Mr.  Hale  for 

consideration  of  Mr.  Tappan's  case. 
"  Facts  and  Reasonings  "  published. 
February  11.    Mr.  Tappan  appealed  to  Presbytery.    Ap- 
peal not  sustained. 

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Chronological  Record 

1839.  March  4.    Appealed  to  General  Assembly. 

May  27.  General  Assembly  sustained  appeal  and  re- 
versed sentence  of  Session  and  decision  of  Presby- 
tery. 

October  8.  Rev.  Joel  Parker  received  into  Third  Pres- 
bytery. 

November  6.    Mr.  Parker's  installation. 

1840.  June.    Mr.  Parker  resigned.    Tabernacle  advertised  for 

sale.     Mortgage  foreclosed. 

July  2.  Mr.  David  Hale  bought  the  building  at  chan- 
cery sale  for  $34,363.74.  Church  meeting  same  even- 
ing. Mr.  Hale  invited  members  to  form  a  Congre- 
gational Church. 

July  6.  Last  meeting  of  joint  church  held  in  lecture- 
room.  Company  of  men  remain  to  form  a  Congrega- 
tional Church.    Committee  appointed. 

September  3.  Church  publicly  recognized;  seventy- 
nine  members.    Articles  of  faith,  etc.,  adopted. 

September  14.     Sunday-school  organized. 

Deacons  appointed,  and  permanent  rules  adopted. 

October  30.  Board  of  Trustees  appointed.  Rev.  E.  W. 
Andrews  of  West  Hartford,  Conn.,  called. 

1841.  Mr.  Andrews  began  service  first  Sunday  of  January. 
January  4.     Society  incorporated. 

January  31.     Installation  of  pastor. 

March  1.     At  annual  meeting*  reported  accessions  by 

letter,  37 ;  on  profession,  3 ;   losses,  o.    Membership, 

107. 
November  8.    Lease  of  building  signed. 
Sunday-school   more   than   fifty   teachers,    seven    Bible 

classes,  more  than  two  hundred  and  thirty  scholars. 

Four  other  Sunday-schools  superintended  and  largely 

conducted  by  Tabernacle  members. 
Revival  services,  aided  by  Rev.  Edward  N.  Kirk. 

*  Until  1872,  the  annual  meetings  were  in  February  or  March,  and  reported 
statistics  of  previous  year  up  to  date. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

1842.  February  28.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

87;    by  profession,   15.     Losses:    by  letter,  7;    by 
death,  1.     Membership,  201. 

1843.  February  27.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

63;    on  profession,  59.     Losses:    by  letter,  33;    by 
death,  2.     Membership,  288. 

1844.  February  27.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

58;    by  profession,  37.     Losses:    by  letter,  29;    by 

death,  4.     Membership,  350. 
February   26.     Monthly   concert   established.      Samuel 

Pitts  appointed  Steward. 
March.     New  organ  purchased  by  Organ  Association. 
August  6.     Rev.  E.  W.  Andrews  resigned. 
August  14.     Council  for  dismission  of  pastor. 
December  10.    Rev.  Joseph  P.  Thompson  called. 
December  31.    Call  declined. 
Monthly  concert  and  Missionary  Society  established  in 

connection  with  Sunday-school.     Women  of  church 

support  home  missionary  in  the  West. 

1845.  February  25.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

19;    by  profession,  17.     Losses:    by  letter,  29;    by 

death,   2;    excommunicated,    1.      Membership,   354. 
Tabernacle    property    bought    by    Society.      Mortgage, 

$18,000.     Building  repaired,  painted,  carpeted. 
March.    Call  to  Rev.  J.  P.  Thompson  renewed,  accepted. 
April  15.     Mr.  Thompson  installed. 
October  28.    Committee  appointed  to  revise  articles  of 

faith. 

1846.  February  24.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

38;  by  profession,  8.  Losses:  by  letter,  38;  by 
death,  1 ;  excommunicated,  1.  Membership,  360. 
Revised  articles  of  faith,  form  of  admission,  and  per- 
manent rules  adopted. 
Sunday  afternoon  service  omitted  in  summer.  History 
of  church,  articles  of  faith,  covenant  and  catalogue 
of  church  published.  Revival, 
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Chronological  Record 

1847.  March  9.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter,  36; 

by  profession,  50.      Losses :  by  letter,  40 ;  by  death, 

2;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  2.    Membership,  402. 

Contributions,  $911 .80. 
March  16.     Congregational  Association  of  New  York 

and  Brooklyn  organized  at  Tabernacle. 
New  entrance  to  lecture-room  made.    Sunday  afternoon 

service  kept  up  through  the  year. 

1848.  February  29.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

23;    by  profession,   19.     Losses:    by  letter,  32;    by 
death,  3.    Membership,  409. 
March  14.    Resolution  as  to  absentees  adopted. 

1849.  February  27.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

25;    by  profession,  12.     Losses:    by  letter,  39;    by 

death,  7.     Membership,  400.     Choir  leader,  George 

Andrews,  resigns. 
January  9.     Christian  Psalmist  adopted  as  hymn-book 

in  place  of  Church  Psalmist. 
Resolutions  adopted  upon  David  Hale's  death  by  church, 

society,  and  trustees. 

1850.  February  26.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

22;    by  profession,   17.   Losses:   by  letter,  24;    by 

death,    10;    by   excommunication,    1.     Membership, 

404.    Contributions,  $1,240.98. 
William  P.  Bradbury,  leader  of  choir.    List  of  members 

purged  of  absentees. 
August  26.    Council  to  ordain  evangelists. 
Tabernacle  refitted,  carpeted,  and  painted. 

1851.  February  25.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:    by  letter, 

24;  by  profession,  5.  Losses:  by  letter,  39;  by 
death,  3.    Membership,  391.    Contributions,  $921.03. 

March  31.  Property  purchased  for  permanent  en- 
trance at  cost  of  $20,250. 

May  13.     Rule  relating  to  absentees  adopted. 

Rev.  Luther  Gulick  ordained  as  missionary  to  the  Pa- 
cific. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

185  i.  December  30.  Rule  in  regard  to  letters  of  dismission 
added  to  standing  rules  and  Committee  on  Absentees 
appointed. 

1852.  March  1.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:  by  letter,  39; 

on  profession,  24.    Losses:   by  letter,  78;   by  death, 

7 ;   fellowship  withdrawn  from,  5 ;   excommunicated, 

2.     Membership,  362.     Contributions,  $3,623.56. 
January  27.    Mrs.  Joseph  P.  Thompson  died. 
Dr.  Finney  held  revival  services. 
March  9.     Passage  omitted   from  form  of  admission 

"Wo,  wo,"  etc. 
Leave  of  absence  granted  pastor  for  a  year  from  August 

or  September.    Deacon  Pitts  removed  to  Michigan. 
June  29.     Principles  of  Discipline  adopted. 
Volunteer  Committee  to  solicit  donations  for  the  $50,000 

fund  for  building  houses  of  worship  in  the  West. 

Mortgage  paid  off. 

1853.  March  1.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter,  19; 

on  profession,  15.  Losses:  by  letter,  40;  by  death, 
5 ;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  23 ;  excommuni- 
cated, 2.  Membership,  326.  Contributions,  $3,- 
931.68. 

April  26.  Resolution  in  regard  to  withdrawing  fellow- 
ship from  absentees  adopted. 

May  16.  Voted  to  partition  front  entrance  from  Broad- 
way. 

Pastor's  salary  increased  to  $3,000. 

1854.  February  2y.     Annual  meeting.     Accessions:  by  letter, 

26.  Losses:  by  letter,  32;  by  death,  8;  fellowship 
withdrawn  from,  14.  Membership,  298.  Contribu- 
tions, $5,149.67. 

May  31.    Frederick  S.  Boyd  engaged  as  sexton. 

Mr.  Ensign,  organist  and  valuable  church  member,  left. 
Afternoon  service  discontinued  in  summer.  Mr. 
George  Andrews  again  choir  leader. 

December  19.    Conference  of  churches  of  New  York  and 
vicinity  convened  in  Tabernacle, 
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Chronological  Record 

1855.  February  27.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

15;  by  profession,  6.  Losses:  by  letter,  43;  by 
death,  2;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  5.  Member- 
ship 265.     Contributions,  $3,728.26. 

January  20.    Deacon  Pitts  died,  mourned  by  the  church. 

March  2.  Rules  as  to  qualifications  of  members  of  so- 
ciety adopted. 

April  8.  Dr.  Thompson's  historical  sermon,  tenth  anni- 
versary. 

July  2.  Afternoon  service  given  up. 

November  13.  Trustees  authorized  to  sell  Tabernacle 
and  provide  site  for  new  church.  Pastor  authorized 
to  hold  service  up  town  part  of  each  Sabbath. 

New  manual  printed. 

1856.  February  26.     Annual  meeting.     Accessions:  by  letter, 

20 ;  by  profession  11.  Losses :  by  letter,  27 ;  by  death, 
2 ;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  6.  Membership,  265. 
Congregation  largest  in  the  city.  Contributions, 
$7,025. 
September  29.  Church  Committee  licensed  Brother  Jo- 
seph Harris  to  preach. 

1857.  February  24.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

27;  on  profession,  11.  Losses:  by  letter,  24;  by 
death,  1 ;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  8.  Member- 
ship, 270.     Contributions,  $5,210.91. 

February  23.  Sale  of  Tabernacle  for  $122,000  ratified 
by  Society. 

April  6.    New  site  approved  and  purchased. 

April  20.     Building  Committee  appointed. 

April  26.    Last  service  in  Broadway  Tabernacle. 

July  17.    Plans  for  church  accepted. 

Sabbath  services  held  in  City  Assembly  Rooms ;  and  in 
chapel  of  Home  of  the  Friendless  after  October  23. 

December  25.    Corner  stone  laid  at  Thirty-fourth  Street 
and  Broadway. 
1658.  March  1.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter,  18; 
on  profession,  4.    Losses:  by  letter,  14;  by  death,  3; 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

fellowship  withdrawn  from,  I.  Membership,  274. 
Contributions,  $2,585.73. 

1858.  February  15.     Voted  to  rent  seats  in  new  chapel  for 

current  expenses.    Ladies'  Sewing  Society  to  furnish 

social  rooms  of  chapel. 
May.     Lecture-room  of  new  chapel  first  occupied  first 

Sabbath  in  this  month. 
November.     Sabbath  Hymn  Book  adopted. 

1859.  March  1.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter,  60; 

by  profession,  41.  Losses:  by  letter,  29;  by  death, 
4 ;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  5 ;  excommunicated, 
1.     Membership,  336.     Contributions,  $4,549.11. 

Ex  parte  council  called  by  aggrieved  members  of  Church 
of  the  Puritans. 

Ladies'  prayer  meeting  established  at  Dr.  Thompson's 
request,  led  by  Mrs.  Marshall  O.  Roberts  (Caroline 
D.),  Thursday  afternoons. 

April  24.    New  House  of  Worship  dedicated. 

Debt  on  building,  $65,000.  Service  of  plate  for  com- 
munion presented  by  Francis  B.  Nicol.  Strangers' 
Committee  appointed  from  Pitts  Bible  Class.  Miss 
Marion  McGregor  (Mrs.  Christopher),  engaged  as 
organist. 
i860.  February  28.  Annual  meeting.  Accessions:  by  letter, 
44;  by  confession,  9.  Losses:  by  letter,  27;  by 
death,  2 ;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  3 ;  excom- 
municated, 1.     Membership,  356. 

January.  Rules  of  Society  in  relation  to  elections 
adopted. 

March  6.    Changes  in  permanent  rules  adopted. 

March  19.    New  form  for  letters  of  dismission  ordered. 

New  manual  with  many  changes  in  rules,  form  of  ad- 
mission, and  covenant.  Pastor's  salary  raised  to 
$4,000. 
1 86 1.  February  26.  Annual  meeting.  Accessions:  by  letter, 
39;  on  profession,  5.  Losses:  by  letter,  30;  by 
death,  3.     Membership,  367. 


Chronological  Record 

1861.  May  2.    Second  ex  parte  council  called  by  members  of 

Church  of  the  Puritans.  Council  withdrew  fellow- 
ship from  that  church,  forty-one  of  whose  members 
were  recommended  by  council  to  Tabernacle. 

1862.  February  26.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter, 

102 ;  on  profession,  12.  Losses :  by  letter,  22 ;  by 
death,  7;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  3;  excom- 
municated, 1.  Membership,  448. 
Standing  Committee  appointed  to  take  in  charge  Centre 
Street  Mission.  Some  changes  in  covenant  and  form 
of  admission. 

1863.  February  24.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:    by  letter, 

38;  by  profession,  16.  Losses:  by  letter,  30;  by 
death,  5;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  1.  Member- 
ship, 466. 
By  free-will  offering  in  February  paid  $25,000  of  debt. 
Several  collections  for  patriotic  purposes ;  $600  to  aid 
Harlem  church  build  its  chapel. 

1664.  March  1.  Annual  meeting.  Accessions:  by  letter,  35; 
by  profession,  28.  Losses :  by  letter,  22 ;  by  death, 
10 ;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  8 ;  excommunicated, 
1.     Membership,  488. 

On  second  Sabbath  of  March  $40,000  subscribed  and 
every  claim  on  church  property  cancelled. 

Pastor  visited  Army  of  the  Cumberland  in  May. 

At  after-meeting  held  Sunday  evening,  June  26,  $30,- 
000  subscribed  to  furnish  a  regiment  for  the  Govern- 
ment. 

Prayer  meeting  of  Ladies'  Christian  Union  transferred 
to  Tabernacle  Wednesday  mornings  and  united  with 
weekly  meeting  led  by  Mrs.  Roberts.  Alterations  in 
organ  and  choir  at  cost  of  $2,600.  Pastor's  salary  in- 
creased to  $5,000.  Some  changes  in  covenant  and 
form  of  admission. 

November  16.  Conference  of  churches  to  prepare  for 
National  Convention. 

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1865.  February  28.     Annual  meeting.     Accessions:    by  letter, 

39;  by  profession,  8.  Losses:  by  letter,  32;  by 
death,  5;  excommunicated,  1.  Membership,  497. 
Contributions  about  $10,000. 

March  8.  Committee  appointed  to  raise  money  and  se- 
cure land  for  another  Congregational  Church  and  So- 
ciety up  town. 

Thanksgiving  service  "  for  victories  to  our  arms  "  in 
April. 

June  1.  Public  service  in  commemoration  of  President 
Lincoln. 

Collection  plates  presented  by  Mrs.  F.  B.  Nicol  in  Sep- 
tember. 

December  11.    "  Memorial  service  for  our  fallen  heroes." 

Pastor's  salary  increased  to  $6,000.  Leave  of  absence 
for  nine  months  with  $2,500  allowance  for  travelling 
expenses. 

1866.  February  27.     Annual  meeting.     Accessions:    by  letter, 

7,^;  by  profession,  13.  Losses:  by  letter,  29;  by 
death,  6.  Membership,  508.  Contributions  about 
$11,000.  Only  five  left  of  those  who  organized  the 
church. 
Woman's  prayer  meeting  continued  daily  for  three 
months,  beginning  with  week  of  prayer.  Professor 
Roswell  D.  Hitchcock  and  Professor  Shedd  supply 
pulpit.  Pastor's  salary  raised  to  $8,000.  Paid  on 
mortgage  $30,000.  Mission  Committee  secured  mis- 
sion chapel  in  Forty-eighth  Street  between  Eighth 
and  Ninth  Avenues,  and  organized  a  Congregational 
Church,  removing  thither  former  mission  school,  cor- 
ner of  Sixth  Avenue  and  Thirty-ninth  Street.  New 
manual  issued.  Church  Sunday-school  obtained  a 
piano  and  library  of  700  volumes. 

1867.  February  26.     Annual  meeting.     Accessions:    by  letter, 

29;    by  profession,  22.     Losses:    by  letter,  31;    by 
death,  12.    Membership,  516.    Contributions,  $16,000. 
Pew  rentals  raised. 

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1868.  February  25.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:    by  letter, 

38 ;  by  profession,  22.  Losses :  by  letter,  33 ;  by 
death,  8.  Membership,  535.  Contributions,  $18,000. 
Subscribed  for  church  debt,  $2,670.  Portrait  of  Dr. 
Thompson,  painted  by  Carpenter,  presented  to  so- 
ciety by  Dr.  Pierce  of  Rutgers  Female  College.  James 
Smith,  for  many  years  trustee  and  treasurer  of  so- 
ciety, died  July  3.    Pews  made  free  Sunday  evenings. 

1869.  March  3.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter,  37; 

by  profession,  23.  Losses :  by  letter,  33 ;  by  death, 
6;  excommunicated,  1.  Membership,  555.  Contri- 
butions, $11,689.29. 

May  18.  Rev.  Absalom  Peters,  a  stanch  friend  of  the 
church  and  in  his  later  years  a  member,  died. 

November  10.  Seth  W.  Benedict,  trustee  and  active 
promoter  of  church  interests,  died. 

November  24.     Pastor's  salary  fixed  at  $9,000. 

Bethany  work  begun.  Ladies'  Home  Missionary  Society 
organized.  Church  work  organized  in  departments. 
Lost  by  removal,  W.  W.  Fessenden,  an  active  officer 
of  the  church. 

1870.  March  2.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions :   by  letter  ,23 ; 

by  profession,  25.     Losses:    by  letter,  43;    by  death, 
5;      fellowship    withdrawn,     1.       Membership,  554. 
Contributions,  $11,689.29. 
Sexton's  salary  advanced  to  $2,000. 

1871.  March  1.    Annual  meeting.    Accessions:   by  letter,  19; 

by  profession,  14.  Losses :  by  letter,  34 ;  by  death, 
8.     Membership,  547.     Contributions,  $25,126.01. 

October  22.    Dr.  Thompson  resigned. 

Society  passed  resolutions  of  sorrow  and  sympathy  and 
voted  a  gift  of  $30,000  to  retiring  pastor  which  was 
increased  by  $25,000  from  members  of  church  and 
congregation.  One  thousand  three  hundred  and  fifty- 
seven  additions  to  church  during  Dr.  Thompson's 
pastorate. 

November  8.     Council  for  dismission  of  pastor. 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

1871.  November   15.     Relations   dissolved.     Dismissed    from 

church  by  letter  to  Dom  Kirche,  Berlin,  Prussia. 
November  22.     Rev.  William   M.  Taylor  called.     Dr. 

Thompson  delegated  to  visit  Mr.   Taylor  and  urge 

call. 
December  29.    Call  accepted. 

1872.  February  28.     Annual  meeting.     Accessions :    by  letter, 

38 ;  by  profession,  24.  Losses :  by  letter,  25 ;  by 
death,  6;  excommunicated,  1.  Membership,  578. 
Contributions,  $33,952.28.  Annual  meeting  of  church 
changed  to  the  business  meeting  before  the  first  Sab- 
bath in  January. 

December  30.*  Annual  meeting.  Accessions :  by  let- 
ter, 20;  by  profession,  9;  letter  returned,  1.  Losses: 
by  letter,  19;  by  death,  4.  Membership,  585.  Contri- 
butions, $15,213.59. 

March  1.  Mr.  Taylor  arrived.  Began  pastoral  work 
second  Sabbath  of  this  month. 

April  9.     Installation  by  council. 

Salary  $10,000.  A  twenty -year  endowment  policy  on  Dr. 
Taylor's  life  secured  of  $25,000,  annual  premium  to 
be  paid  by  Society.  Rent  of  house  paid  also.  Ex- 
tensive alterations  in  church  building  during  summer. 
Bethany  Christian  Association  formed.  Rev.  Robert 
W.  Haskins  left  Bethany.  Rev.  Rufus  S.  Underwood 
succeeded  him  as  missionary  pastor  and  Frederick 
Link  as  superintendent  of  Sunday-school. 

Band  of  Cheerful  Workers  for  Foreign  Missions  organ- 
ized in  Mrs.  Austin  Abbott's  Sunday-school  class. 

1873.  Accessions:    by  letter,  90;    by  profession,  46.     Losses: 

by  letter,  29;  by  death,  8.     Membership,  683.     Con- 
tributions, $25,519.14. 
Henry  C.  Hall,  deacon  for  ten  years,  died;    also  Mr. 
Lansing  C.  Moore,  a  tried  friend  of  the  Society.    Lit- 
erary  Society   for  young  men  organized.     Pastor's 

*  From  this  time  on  the  statistics  are  made  out  at  the  close  of  the  calendar 
year. 

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removal  expenses  paid  and  house  furnished.  Salary 
fixed  at  $12,000.  Preaching  service  at  Bethany,  Sun- 
day mornings,  in  place  of  Sunday-school. 

1874.  Accessions:    by  letter,  55;    by  profession,  39.     Losses: 

by  letter,  13;  by  death,  12;  by  discipline,  1.  Mem- 
bership, 751.     Contributions,  $19,939.53. 

Among  the  deaths  specially  noted  is  that  of  William  Al- 
len, May  25,  "  who  fulfilled  in  a  remarkable  degree 
all  the  kindly  offices  of  a  Christian  brother ;  "  Myron 
J.  Frisbie,  an  efficient  helper,  October  13,  and  Mrs. 
Marshall  O.  Roberts,  the  founder  of  the  Ladies' 
Christian  Association  (Young  Women's  Christian 
Association),  December  12. 

Barnabas  Root,  a  native  African,  examined  by  Council 
November  5,  ordained  as  missionary,  November  7. 

Mr.  Samuel  Colcord,  member  of  the  church,  ordained 
by  Council  December  9,  as  evangelist.  Pastor  had 
three  months  summer  vacation.  In  place  of  other 
mortgages,  one  bond  and  mortgage  for  $58,000  sub- 
stituted.    Reading-room  opened  in  Bethany. 

1875.  Accessions:    by  letter,  74;    by  profession,  85.     Losses: 

by  letter,  37;  by  death,  9;  by  discipline,  1.  Mem- 
bership, 863.  Contributions,  $18,512.32. 
Suit  relating  to  expenses  for  widening  Broadway  de- 
cided adversely.  Assessment  $13,000  with  interest, 
amounting  to  $18,300.  Pastor's  salary  increased  $500. 
Church  debt  reduced  $4,000.  Thomas  T.  Berry, 
member  of  church  committee  and  superintendent  of 
mission  school,  died  January  30.  Cheerful  Workers 
adopt  Miss  Carrie  E.  Bush  as  their  missionary.  Rev. 
William  Plested,  pastor  of  Bethany.  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation of  Bethany  Mission  formed. 

1876.  Accessions:    by  letter,  60;    by  profession,  90.     Losses: 

by  letter,  29 ;  by  death,  14.  Membership,  970.  Con- 
tributions, $16,545.53.  Special  resolution  on  death 
of  Dr.  Thomas  Ritter,  for  thirty-one  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  church.  Turrets  rebuilt  and  other  outside 
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work  done  at  cost  of  $3,000.  Fifty  thousand  dollars 
paid  toward  debt. 

1877.  Accessions:    by  letter,  56;   by  profession,  43.     Losses: 

dismissed  to  Bethany  church,  90;  other  letters,  19; 
by  death,  11;  fellowship  withdrawn,  12;  excom- 
municated,    1.      Membership,    936.      Contributions, 

$18,55875. 
February  28.    Plan  for  organization  of  Bethany  Church 

adopted. 

April  13.  Bethany  Church  organized.  Rev.  William 
Plested,  pastor. 

Tabernacle  closed  two  and  a  half  months  in  summer  for 
repairs.  Pastor's  salary  increased  $500.  Debt  re- 
duced $8,000.  Charity  Committee  of  Sunday-school 
organized  by  Dr.  Henry  D.  Ranney. 

1878.  Accessions:    by  letter,  48;    by  profession,  25.     Losses: 

by  letter,  31 ;  by  death,  10.  Membership,  968.  Con- 
tributions, $13,972.36. 

March  29.  Mr.  Charles  Abernethy,  for  ten  years  a  trus- 
tee, died. 

Debt  reduced  $12,000.  Rev.  Willard  Scott  succeeds  Mr. 
Plested  as  pastor  at  Bethany  Church. 

1879.  Accessions:    by  letter,  52;   by  profession,  15.     Losses: 

by  letter,  30;  deaths  reported,  11.  Membership,  993. 
Contributions,  $18,034.14.  Special  resolutions  on 
deaths  of  Deacon  Henry  Whittlesey  and  Dr.  Joseph 
P.  Thompson. 

December  1.     Rev.  Willard  Scott  left  Bethany  Church. 

Accessions:  by  letter,  60;  by  profession,  21.  Losses: 
by  letter,  29;  by  death,  18;  deaths  not  reported 
earlier,  18.  Membership,  1,027.  Contributions,  $17,- 
293.11.  The  deaths  of  Robert  L.  Hall  and  Nathan- 
iel Fisher,  twelve  years  trustee,  specially  noted  in  the 
report,  also  that  of  Dr.  Bush,  District  Secretary  of 
A.  B.  C.  F.  M.,  long  associated  with  the  Tabernacle 
though  not  a  member. 

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1880.  February  1.     Rev.  Charles  H.  Burr  assumed  pastorate 

of  Bethany  Church. 
April    1.      Bethany    Secular    Library    established    and 

opened  through  efforts  of  Dr.  E.  P.  Hoyt. 
Four  thousand  dollars  paid  on  bond  and  mortgage,  and 

$2,500  extra  to  pastor  for  family  travelling  expenses. 

1881.  Accessions:    by  letter,  47;    by  profession,  12.     Losses: 

by  letter,  37;  deaths  reported,  17.  Membership, 
1,032.    Contributions,  $20,938.52. 

March  11.  Abel  K.  Thompson,  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  church,  died. 

Largest  pew  rentals  ever  received  by  the  Society,  $37,- 
880.40.  Paid  on  bond  and  mortgage,  $4,000.  Ser- 
vice held  Sunday  and  Monday,  September  26  and  27, 
commemorating  President  James  A.  Garfield.  Council 
held  in  Tabernacle  to  ordain  William  J.  Peck,  fellow- 
member,  as  evangelist.  Church  recarpeted.  Mothers' 
meeting  started  in  Bethany.  Dr.  Taylor's  salary 
raised  to  $16,000. 

1882.  Accessions:    by  letter,  42;   by  profession,  15.     Losses: 

by  letter,  22;  by  death,  12;  excommunicated,  1. 
Membership,  1,054.  Contributions,  $52,190.81,  more 
than  $30,000  being  for  Bethany  Mission. 

Among  deaths  is  noted  that  of  Mrs.  William  H.  Smith, 
March  11,  a  liberal  helper  in  church  work  and  mem- 
ber for  twenty-one  years,  and  Deacon  William  G. 
Lambert,  December  24,  one  of  the  founders,  and  of 
the  original  board  of  deacons. 

March  12.  More  than  $30,000  subscribed  for  building 
Bethany  Church. 

March  13.  Reception  to  Dr.  Taylor  to  celebrate  his 
tenth  anniversary.  More  than  947  united  with  church 
during  these  ten  years. 

Fresh  air  work  begun  in  Bethany.  "  Helping  Hand  " 
organized  by  Mrs.  L.  M.  Bates. 

1883.  Accessions:    by  letter,  42;    by  profession,  19.     Losses: 

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by  letter,  22 ;  by  death,  8.    Membership,  1,085.    Con- 
tributions, $22,838.17. 

1883.  February  15.     Death  of  Dr.  Lafayette  Ranney,  identi- 

fied with  Bible  class  work  in  Sunday-school. 
Choir  enlarged  by  second  quartette.     Indebtedness  on 

Tabernacle  property,  $37,000 ;  on  account  of  Bethany, 

$16,000. 
March   11.     Bethany  Church  dedicated.     Additions  to 

Bethany   Church,   31.      Membership,    158.      Bethany 

Young  People's  Association  organized. 
May  23.    John  D.  Long  ordained  by  council. 

1884.  Accessions:    by  letter,  60;    by  profession,  22.     Losses: 

by  letter,  32;  by  death,  16.  Membership,  1,119. 
Contributions,  $28,098.63.  Individual  members  con- 
tributed $40,000  for  educational  purposes. 
John  Gray,  for  many  years  trustee  and  president  of 
Board,  removed  from  city.  Hour  of  service  changed 
from  10.30  a.m.  to  11.  Pastor  absent  three  Sundays 
in  December,  collecting  $21,537.58  for  Parsonage 
Fund.  About  $4,000  of  which  contributed  by  Taber- 
nacle Church.  Pews  provided  for  Bethany  Church 
mainly  by  generosity  of  John  B.  Gough.  Member- 
ship, 177. 

1885.  Accessions:    by  letter,  40;    by  profession,  19.     Losses: 

by  letter,  42;   by  death,  13;    death  prior  to  1885,  5. 
Membership,  1,118. 

Mrs.  William  Taylor,  active  in  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety and  Bethany,  died  November  23,  and  Deacon 
Thomas  W.  Whittemore,  deacon  for  nearly  twenty 
years,  died  July  23.    Contributions,  $22,328.56. 

February  1.     Chinese  Bible  school  begun. 

Three  thousand  dollars  paid  on  floating  debt.  Mrs. 
Christopher,  organist,  resigned.  Public  reception  and 
testimonial  given  to  her.  Succeeded  by  S.  N.  Pen- 
field.  Dr.  Taylor's  Parsonage  Fund  completed,  $27,- 
000.  Tabernacle's  contribution  brought  up  to  $5,000. 
Bethany  Church  membership,  193. 
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1886.  Accessions:   by  letter,  40;   by  profession,  29.     Losses: 

by  letter,  24;  by  death,  13;  excommunicated,  2. 
Membership,  1,148.  Contributions,  $33>277-56-  De- 
partment of  Missions  and  Charities  abolished ;  Board 
of  Missions,  a  committee  of  three  substituted.  In 
place  of  Department  of  Strangers,  Reception  Com- 
mittee of  one  appointed.  Committee  of  three  ap- 
pointed for  Chinese  Bible  school.  Change  in  ad- 
ministration of  Sunday-school.  Bethany  Church 
membership,  209.  Payment  of  $5,000  completed  to 
Presbyterian  Hospital  for  bed  in  perpetuity. 

1887.  Accessions:    by  letter,  38;    by  profession,  33.     Losses: 

by  letter,  30;  by  death,  12.  Membership,  1,177.  Mr. 
Caleb  B.  Knevals  resigned  charge  of  Sunday-school, 
held  twenty-one  years.  Thirty-five  thousand  dollars 
raised  in  March,  on  debt.  Secular  school  established 
for  Chinese,  Monday  afternoons.  Bed  in  Woman's 
Hospital  given  to  church.  Mr.  Burr  left  Bethany 
Church  after  eight  years  of  service.  Membership 
more  than  doubled,  230.  Bethany  Church  interior 
decorated. 

1888.  Accessions:    by  letter,  58;   by  profession,  16.     Losses: 

by  letter,  39 ;  by  death,  7.  Membership,  1,205.  Con- 
tributions, $30,387.  Young  Men's  Association  or- 
ganized, also  Ladies'  Society  for  Missionary  Intelli- 
gence. Rev.  Spencer  H.  Bray  secured  as  pastor  of 
Bethany  Church.  Silas  H.  Paine  Superintendent  of 
Bethany  Sunday-school.  Boys'  reading-room  opened 
in  Bethany;  Christian  Endeavor  Society,  73  mem- 
bers. 

1889.  Accessions:    by  letter,  38;    by  profession,  25.     Losses: 

by  letter,  40;  by  death,  15.  Membership,  1,213. 
Contributions,  $32,589.98.  Bethany  membership, 
257.  Annual  meeting  of  American  Board  held  in 
Tabernacle  October  18.  Church  fitted  with  electric 
lights. 

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1890.  Church  half  a  century  old.     Accessions:    by  letter,  35; 

by  profession,  24.  Losses:  by  letter,  37;  by  death, 
15.  Membership,  1,220,  highest  number  ever  reached 
by  Tabernacle  Church. 

April  6.     Forty  united  with  church. 

Contributions,  $38,931.25.  Paid  on  Bethany  debt, 
$2,500.  R.  A.  Dorman  became  Sunday-school  Super- 
intendent. Young  Girls'  Society  for  A.  M.  A.  or- 
ganized.   Bethany  Church  receives  26  new  members. 

1891.  Accessions:    by  letter,  26;    by  profession,  13.     Losses: 

by  letter,  54;  by  death,  16;  fellowship  withdrawn,  1. 
Membership,  1,189.  Contributions,  $41,881.82. 
Adult  Bible  class  begun,  Sunday  mornings,  conducted 
by  Professor  Hamlin. 

March  6.     Church  entertained   Manhattan   Conference. 

For  the  first  time  in  twenty  years  Dr.  Taylor  laid  aside 
from  pulpit  ministrations  by  illness.  For  the  Camp 
Memorial  church  building,  members  of  Broadway 
Tabernacle  subscribed  $7,264,  one-third  of  the  cost. 
A  monthly  church  paper,  Bethany  Beacon,  a  Girls' 
Club,  and  a  cooking  class,  all  new  Bethany  enter- 
prises, started ;  also  Penny  Provident  Fund. 

1892.  Accessions:    by  letter,   11;    by  profession,   1.     Losses: 

by   letter,   34;    by   death,    19.      Membership,    1,148. 

Contributions,  $29,175.72. 
July   28.      William   Henry    Smith,    senior   deacon   and 

leader  in  many  Christian  activities,  died. 
October  27.     Dr.  Taylor,  stricken  with  paralysis  in  the 

spring,  after  six  months  leave  of  absence,  resigns. 
Church  voted,  November  2,  to  continue  salary  througl 

the    year.      Dr.    Taylor   appointed    pastor    emeritus, 

stipend,  $5,000.     Mr.  J.  Winthrop  Platner  engaged 

for  pastoral  work. 

1S93.  Accessions:    by  letter,  46;    by  profession,  14.     Losses: 
by   letter,   64;    by   death,   26.      Membership,    1,118. 
Contributions,  $29,674.65. 
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Chronological  Record 

1893.  February  20.  Mrs.  Atossa  F.  Whittemore,  widow  of 
Deacon  Thomas  Whittemore,  an  efficient  church 
worker,  died. 

March  20.  Call  of  church  accepted  by  Dr.  Henry  A. 
Stimson  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  Began  duty  April  5. 
Salary,  $12,000.  Moving  expenses,  $1,244.50,  paid 
by  society. 

Council  called  for  October  31  ratifies  Dr.  Taylor's 
withdrawal  from  pastoral  service,  his  retention  as 
pastor  emeritus  and  instals  Dr.  Stimson.  Lecture- 
room  carpeted  and  seated  anew.  New  Laudes 
Domini  adopted  in  place  of  Songs  of  the  Sanctuary. 
Children's  Day  observed.  Christian  Endeavor  (Oc- 
tober 1)  and  Junior  Endeavor  (November  8)  socie- 
ties started.  Society  for  Women's  Work  organized. 
Absentee  list  begun.  Sunday-schools  morning  and 
afternoon.  E.  F.  Tripp,  church  secretary.  Bethany 
membership,  350. 

1894.  Accessions:    by  letter,  30;    by  profession,  13.     Losses: 

by  letter,  84;  deaths  reported,  29;  on  absentee  roll, 
196;  fellowship  withdrawn  from,  4.  Membership, 
851.  Contributions,  $30,187.15.  Extra  allowance  to 
Dr.  Stimson,  $916.67,  for  rent.  Relief  Committee  or- 
ganized, also  pastor's  Bible  class  and  teachers' 
meeting.  New  pastor  in  Bethany  Church,  Rev.  Fred- 
erick B.  Richards.  He  starts  various  new  enterprises : 
Boys'  Brigade,  Young  Men's  Institute,  gymnasium. 
Bethany's  membership  of  312  includes  75  absentees. 

1895.  Accessions:  by  letter,  31;  by  profession,  6.     Restora- 

tions, 11.  Losses :  by  letter,  47;  by  death,  18.  Mem- 
bership, 833.  Contributions,  $25,942.07.  Church  visi- 
tor appointed. 

February  8.  Dr.  Taylor  died.  Funeral  sermon  by  pas- 
tor, Sunday,  February  10.  Funeral  service,  Feb- 
ruary 12.  Sermon  by  Dr.  Storrs.  Memorial  service, 
February  17,  in  church. 

March  18.  Kindergarten  work  at  Bethany,  opened. 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Society  for  Women's  Work  takes  in  charge  Bethany 
Sewing  School,  Helping  Hand,  and  Kindergarten. 
Board  of  Missions  reorganized  under  name  of  Beth- 
any Board.  Bethany  Church  has  259  active  members, 
35  non-resident. 

1896.  Accessions:  by  letter,  13;  by  profession,  7 ;  restored,  4. 

Losses:  by  letter,  118,  of  whom  66  to  form  Manhat- 
tan Congregational  Church ;  by  death,  9.  Member- 
ship, 730.     Contributions,  $26,296.09. 

March  3.  Mr.  Frederick  S.  Boyd,  sexton  for  forty-two 
years,  died. 

April  19.  Deacon  Austin  Abbott,  whose  second  term 
as  deacon  had  been  over  twenty-one  years,  died. 

April  8.  Dr.  Stimson  resigned.  Dismissed  by  Council 
April  28.  Salary  paid  for  ensuing  year.  First  meet- 
ing of  Manhattan-Brooklyn  Conference  held  in  Tab- 
ernacle. Ordination  of  Rev.  N.  Miller  Pratt  in  Beth- 
any Church. 

1897.  Accessions:  by  letter,  10;  by  profession,  8 ;  restored,  2. 

Losses:  by  letter,  28  (of  whom  13  to  Manhattan 
Church)  ;  by  death,  14;  absentees,  10;  excommuni- 
cated, 1.  Membership,  697.  Contributions,  $20,- 
720.44.  Rev.  F.  B.  Richards,  of  Bethany,  associate 
pastor  of  Tabernacle.  Pastoral  care  of  Bethany 
largely  in  Mr.  Pratt's  charge. 

1898.  Accessions:   by  letter,  35;   by  profession,  16;   restored, 

I.  Losses:  by  letter,  24;  by  death,  9;  absentee,  1. 
Membership,  723.  Contributions,  $23,995.71.  Church 
and  Society  for  Women's  Work  lost  by  death  three 
active  helpers — Mrs.  Henry  Hayes,  Mrs.  Henry  C. 
Houghton,  Mrs.  John  H.  Washburn. 
Call  to  Rev.  Charles  E.  Jefferson  of  Chelsea,  Mass.  Sal- 
ary, $10,000.  Accepted  February  10.  Installation 
April  19.  Rev.  Frederick  B.  Richards  resigned. 
Service  of  Song,  Sunday  afternoons,  introduced,  also 
class  in  Greek  Testament  Sunday  morning,  and  study 
of  present-day  problems  in  the  afternoon.     Broadway 

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Chronological  Record 

Tabernacle  Tidings  started  in  October.  Bethany 
Church  added  32  members. 

1899.  Accessions:    by  letter,  47;   by  profession,  19.     Losses: 

by  letter,  19;  by  death,  14;  fellowship  withdrawn 
from,  5.  Membership,  742.  Contributions ,  $20,- 
327.79. 

Rev.  Dr.  A.  H.  Clapp,  member  for  thirty-three  years, 
died  April  27. 

August  19.  Deacon  Charles  L.  Mead,  member  of  this 
church  fifteen  years,  died. 

Men's  Association  reorganized  as  Men's  League.  Num- 
bers of  elected  members  of  Church  Committee  raised 
from  four  to  nine.  Young  Women's  Club  organized. 
Council  held  to  ordain  Rev.  Stefano  L.  Testa.  Watch 
Night  observed.  Church  entertains  conference  of 
Woman's  Boards  of  Missions.  Kindergarten  moved, 
through  Miss  Grace  H.  Dodge's  interest,  to  361  West 
Thirty-fourth  Street.  Society  for  Women's  Work 
organized  in  Bethany.  Bethany  Church  membership, 
340. 

1900.  Accessions:   by  letter,  42;   by  profession,  10;   restored, 

1.  Losses:  by  letter,  31;  by  death,  13;  fellowship 
withdrawn,  2;  absentees,  31.  Membership,  718. 
Contributions,  $21,914.05.  George  D.  Sweetser,  who 
died  August  7,  for  twenty-one  years  a  member,  left 
as  a  bequest  to  the  church  $20,000  for  missionary 
purposes,  and  to  Bethany  $5,000. 
May  10.  Manhattan-Brooklyn  Conference  met  in  Tab- 
ernacle.    Pastor's  assistant,  Rev.  G.  Andrew  Gordon. 

190 1.  January  16-23.  Celebration  of  the  sixtieth  anniversary 

of  Tabernacle  Church. 
April.    Payment  of  floating  debt  of  $31,500  as  an  Easter 
offering,  and  $1,100  contributed  by  two  women  of 
the  church  toward  an  endowment  fund  for  pastoral 
work. 


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The  History 

of  the 

Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

CHAPTER   I. 
HINDRANCES    TO    CONGREGATIONALISM. 

IN  reviewing  the  history  of  the  oldest  American  Congre- 
gational Church  of  New  York  City,  the  first  fact  that 
confronts  us  is  the  lamentable  weakness  of  Congregational- 
ism, west  of  New  England,  during  the  first  half  of  the  nine- 
teenth century.  Not  only  was  it  generally  conceded  that  Con- 
gregationalism could  not  prosper  outside  of  New  England, 
but  so  unpopular  was  our  church  polity  that  when,  in  1840, 
the  plan  was  broached  of  reorganizing,  upon  a  Congregational 
basis,  the  disbanded  church  that  had  borne  the  name  of  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle,  the  statement  was  publicly  made  that 
not  ten  respectable  families  could  be  found  in  New  York  that 
would  attend  a  Congregational  church. 

To  account  for  this  weakness  and  unpopularity  it  will  be 
necessary  to  recall  certain  differing  phases  of  Congrega- 
tionalism in  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut,  and  certain  events 
in  the  history  of  Congregationalism  beyond  the  limits  of  the 
Eastern  States. 

The  early  settlers  of  Plymouth  were  Separatists,  and  the 
first  Puritans  of  Massachusetts,  though  of  the  reform  party 
within  the   Church  of  England  before  leaving  their  native 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

shores,  inevitably  became  Separatists  when  they  had  estab- 
lished themselves  in  the  New  World. 

The  Pilgrims  had  their  church  organization  before  leaving 
Holland ;  Elder  Brewster  went  with  them,  and  they  expected 
their  pastor  soon  to  follow.  But  the  Puritans  of  Salem, 
Church  of  England  people  though  they  were,  began  by  elect- 
ing their  own  ministers,  laying  hands  upon  them  in  consecra- 
tion and  prayer,  with  no  other  bishop  than  the  ministers  them- 
selves, nominating  an  elder  and  two  deacons,  while  thirty  se- 
lected persons  were  invited  to  form  a  church  by  adopting  the 
confession  and  entering  into  the  Christian  covenant  drawn  up 
for  them  by  the  Rev.  Francis  Higginson : 

"  We  covenant  with  the  Lord  and  one  with  another,  and  do  bind  our- 
selves in  the  presence  of  God,  to  walk  together  in  all  His  ways,  accord- 
ing as  He  is  pleased  to  reveal  Himself  unto  us  in  His  blessed  word  of 
Truth." 

When,  on  an  appointed  day,  this  confession  and  covenant 
had  been  solemnly  assented  to  by  the  chosen  thirty,  they  consti- 
tuted the  first  Congregational  church  organized  in  America. 
The  church  then  proceeded  to  install  their  two  ministers,  elder 
and  deacons,  and  delegates  from  the  church  at  Plymouth, 
though  hindered  by  wind  and  weather,  were  not  too  late  in 
arriving  to  give  to  the  new  church  the  right  hand  of  fellow- 
ship. Thus  the  Congregational  doctrines  of  the  independence 
of  the  individual  church  and  the  fellowship  of  churches  were 
maintained,  from  the  founding  of  New  England. 

The  New  England  churches  held  from  the  outset  that  no 
one  should  enter  into  the  communion  of  the  Church  who  had 
not  been  born  of  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  a  statement  of  personal 
religious  experience  was  required  of  each  candidate  for  ad- 
mission to  its  communion. 

These  early  church  founders  were  men  of  faith,  of  noble 
purpose,  and  high  courage.  Devotion  to  liberty  in  Church  and 
State  dominated  their  lives;  and  devotion  to  religion  and  to 
the  preservation  of  the  commonwealth  they  were  founding  re- 
quired, in  their  judgment,  that  no  man  should  be  made  freeman 


Hindrances  to  Congregationalism 

with  right  to  vote  in  public  affairs  who  was  not  a  member  of 
some  church  in  the  colony.  This  was  but  grafting  on  the  new 
England  the  custom  of  the  old ;  but  in  old  England  infants  en- 
tered the  Church  by  baptism,  and  confirmation  followed,  almost 
inevitably  in  early  youth.  But  rigid  examinations  and  state- 
ments of  personal  experience  of  conversion  debarred  young 
people  from  church  membership,  and  additions  to  the  Church 
were  few. 

In  a  generation  or  two  a  natural  reaction  from  the  intensity 
of  religious  fervor,  which  had  driven  the  fathers  from  their 
homes  into  the  wilderness,  began  to  be  manifest  in  their  chil- 
dren. In  1643  only  about  a  ninth  of  the  Massachusetts  colo- 
nists had  become  citizens.  Thomas  Prince  says  that  "  a  little 
after  1660  there  began  to  appear  a  decay,  and  this  increased 
to  1670,  when  it  grew  very  visible  and  threatening,  and  was 
generally  complained  of  and  bewailed  bitterly  by  the  pious 
among  them,  and  yet  much  more  to  1680,  when  but  few  of 
the  first  generation  remained." 

As  these  children,  born  in  the  Church  and  baptized  in  in- 
fancy, grew  to  manhood,  very  few  were  admitted  to  the  Lord's 
Supper,  as  the  large  majority  made  no  profession  of  having 
experienced  the  new  birth,  but  they  desired  baptism  for  their 
children.  They  were  members  of  the  Church  but  not  in  full 
communion.  But  the  privilege  of  baptism  which  they  sought 
for  their  infant  children  was  so  great  that  they  were  willing 
to  "  own  the  Covenant,"  as  it  was  called ;  that  is,  assent  to 
the  "  doctrine  of  faith "  and  enter  into  a  formal  covenant 
with  the  Church  to  walk  as  became  its  members  and  submit 
to  its  discipline.  This  question  of  the  Half- Way  Covenant 
was  discussed  for  years  and  voted  on  in  association  and 
synod. 

At  first  only  such  presented  themselves  to  "  own  the  Cove- 
nant "  as  were  already,  by  baptism,  in  the  Church ;  but  by 
the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth  century,  still  more  barriers  to 
church  membership  were  broken  down,  and  "  many  ministers 
admitted  all  applicants  of  good  moral  character  to  the  Covenant 
and  granted  them  and  their  children  baptism  without  ques- 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

tion  as  to  whether  the  recipients  were  members  by  birth  or 
not.  This  was  a  wide  departure  from  the  original  Half-Way 
Covenant  practice,  and  one  which  tended  vastly  more  than 
that  to  cheapen  the  Gospel  ordinances."  *  Some  churches 
admitted  to  baptism  any  respectable  person  who  would  take 
the  Covenant  obligation,  others  baptized  the  children  of  all 
reputable  baptized  persons  whether  they  owned  the  Covenant 
or  not.  By  these  lax  methods  of  admission  members  partici- 
pated in  church  government  who  were  not  admitted  to  full 
communion.  The  colony  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  which  was  founded 
in  1666,  was  undertaken  in  part  as  a  protest  against  the  adop- 
tion of  the  Half- Way  Covenant  by  Connecticut  churches. 

Early  in  the  eighteenth  century  ministers  and  associations 
began  to  realize  the  low  state  of  religion  in  the  Church  itself, 
and  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut  directed  Selectmen  to 
distribute  Bibles,  catechisms,  and  other  books  to  "  prepare  for 
the  right  attendance  upon  that  great  duty,  the  Lord's  Supper." 

The  Half- Way  Covenant  had  taught  the  people  that  they 
could  have  acceptable  relations  with  God  without  having  evi- 
dence that  their  lives  were  renewed  by  His  Spirit,  and  that 
performing  religious  duties  would  lead  to  spiritual  renewal. 
It  was  even  maintained  that  "  the  Lord's  Supper  is  a  convert- 
ing ordinance."  Religion  was  respectable,  and  men  were  urged 
to  the  performance  of  its  outward  duties  in  order  to  become 
Christians.  "  Thus  there  grew  up,  in  part  at  least,  as  the  re- 
sult of  the  Half- Way  Covenant,  what  was  then  called  '  the 
new-fashioned  divinity,'  '  the  Arminian  scheme  of  justifica- 
tion by  our  own  virtues.'  "  f 

Meanwhile  conflicting  tendencies  in  church  government 
arose  in  the  colonies.  The  conservative  party  in  Massachusetts 
sought  to  strengthen  the  power  of  the  ministerial  and  church 
associations  and  to  restrain  the  individual  minister  and  the 
local  church ;  but  the  movement  for  stricter  ecclesiastical  gov- 
ernment failed  eventually  in  Massachusetts,  though  it  met  with 

*  Williston  Walker,  Ph.D.,  The  Creeds  and  Platforms  of  Congregational- 
ism ,  p.  279. 

f  Albert  E.  Dunning,  D.D.,  Congregationalists  in  America,  pp.  23S-240. 


Hindrances  to  Congregationalism 

success  in  Connecticut,  where  consociations  of  churches  and 
associations  of  ministers  were  formed  in  accordance  with  the 
civil  law  enacted  in  1708,  which  favored  a  concentration  of 
power  and  authoritative  standing  councils.  These  consocia- 
tions, which  had  much  in  common  with  presbyteries,  retained 
their  authority  for  nearly  eighty  years  until  1780,  when  the 
statutes  of  the  State  of  Connecticut  were  revised.  From  that 
date  the  authority  of  the  consociation  became  more  and  more 
limited,  and  now  the  Presbyterian  element  has  practically  dis- 
appeared from  the  discipline  of  the  Congregational  churches  of 
that  State,  and  hardly  a  vestige  of  the  old  consociation  sys- 
tem remains. 

When  in  the  fourth  and  fifth  decades  of  the  eighteenth 
century  the  New  England  churches  were  roused  from  their 
lethargy  by  the  preaching  of  Jonathan  Edwards,  Gilbert  Ten- 
nent,  George  Whitefield,  and  others,  the  revival  movement  and 
methods  were  opposed  and  deplored  by  many  ministers  who 
were  out  of  touch  with  religious  fervor  of  any  kind.  The 
bitterness  of  their  opposition  led  them  in  their  own  minds  and 
in  public  speech  to  cheapen  the  value  of  the  doctrines  taught 
by  the  revival  preachers.  One  natural  result  of  the  Great 
Awakening  was  to  quicken  theological  thought  and  discussion. 
New  teachers  of  divinity  arose,  developing  new  methods  of 
justifying  the  ways  of  God  to  man.  Bellamy  and  Hopkins 
followed  Edwards  as  teachers  of  the  ministry,  each  with  his 
scheme  of  theology,  and  Emmons  came  after  with  his  further 
modification  of  the  Hopkinsian  system.  These  all  held  the 
Christian  doctrine  in  the  main  as  the  fathers  had  transmitted 
it  to  them,  but  each  interpreted  it  in  his  own  way.  With  these 
men  and  their  successors  the  doctrines  of  Christianity  were 
all-important.  They  rejoiced  to  grapple  with  metaphysical 
difficulties  in  their  search  after  divine  truth ;  but  there  were 
problems  of  life,  practice,  and  politics  which  had  to  be  solved 
in  the  troublous  days  of  the  latter  half  of  that  century,  and 
many  ministers  cared  little  for  the  doctrines  of  the  Gospel  and 
much  for  civil  liberty  and  a  gospel  of  good  works. 

At  the  very  opening  of  the  century  with  the  removal  of 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Increase  Mather  from  its  presidency,  Harvard  College,  the 
trusted  training  school  of  Massachusetts  ministry,  had  broken 
away  from  conservative  control,  and  in  the  course  of  years  it 
became  the  stronghold  of  those  who  opposed  the  stricter  Cal- 
vinistic  tenets.  It  was  a  Harvard  student,  James  Freeman, 
who  made  the  first  open  break  with  the  orthodoxy  of  the 
day,  and,  by  his  leading,  King's  Chapel  became  the  first  Uni- 
tarian, as  it  had  been  the  first  Episcopal,  church  in  Boston. 
From  that  time  on,  the  differences  in  the  two  schools  within 
the  Congregational  body  became  more  marked.  Churches 
counted  themselves  "  evangelical "  that  accepted  the  Assem- 
bly's Shorter  Catechism ;  such  churches  usually  encouraged 
revivals  and  labored  by  missionary  effort  for  the  conversion 
of  men,  while  those  of  Unitarian  tendencies  called  themselves 
"  liberal." 

As  the  struggle  went  on,  churches  in  the  country  towns  and 
smaller  cities  generally  kept  their  old  faith,  but  all  those  of 
Boston,  except  two,  became  Unitarian. 

When  in  a  local  church,  as  frequently  happened,  the  majority 
of  the  church  remained  orthodox  while  the  parish  became 
Unitarian,  the  property  question  heightened  the  quarrel,  for 
the  courts  recognized  the  rights  of  the  parish  only,  as  a  prop- 
erty holder.  One  hundred  and  twenty-six  churches  and 
parishes  were  torn  asunder.  In  eighty-one  of  them  three- 
fourths  of  the  church  remained  evangelical,  but  the  Unitarian 
one-fourth  retained  its  hold  upon  the  church  property. 

The  stricter  organization  of  the  churches  of  Connecticut  en- 
abled them  to  put  down  any  sporadic  case  of  defection  to 
Unitarianism ;  hence  liberal  theology  made  very  little  head- 
way south  of  Massachusetts,  and  a  somewhat  natural  distrust 
of  the  Congregational  doctrine  of  the  independence  of  the  local 
church  gained  ground  in  Connecticut.  Meanwhile,  in  Massa- 
chusetts, the  orthodox  churches  and  ministers  were  drawn 
closer  together,  and  the  present  system  of  local  conferences 
with  a  general  State  Association  developed,  giving  the  churches 
organization  without  limiting  the  power  of  any  local  church. 
Thus  these  orthodox  churches,  though  weakened  in  numbers, 

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Hindrances  to  Congregationalism 

were  strengthened  and  supported  by  the  new  ties  that  bound 
them  together. 

And  this  trial  of  faith  through  which  they  had  passed  worked 
for  the  spiritual  good  of  the  evangelical  churches,  and  renewed 
growth  and  religious  awakening  followed.  Missionary  socie- 
ties were  formed  in  Connecticut  and  Massachusetts  in  1798 
and  1799,  to  aid  and  found  churches  in  the  new  settlements  of 
our  country.  The  American  Home  Missionary  Society,  or- 
ganized in  1826,  to  include  the  New  York  Domestic  Mission- 
ary Society  which  had  been  four  years  in  operation,  founded 
churches,  carrying  on  the  work  still  farther  West.  The  Ameri- 
can Tract  and  Education  Societies  were  formed  in  18 15,  all 
for  evangelizing  work  in  the  home  land ;  while  the  American 
Board  of  Commissioners  to  send  missionaries  to  heathen  lands 
commenced  its  work  in  1810,  all  begun  by  Congregational  en- 
terprise which  had  been  stimulated  by  the  opposition  of  the 
Unitarian  party. 

The  first  English  settlers  on  Long  Island  were  New  Eng- 
land Congregationalists.  From  1640  they  founded  settlements, 
and  in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  and  in  the  early  dec- 
ades of  the  nineteenth  century  many  of  the  churches  founded 
by  them  were  more  truly  Congregational  than  the  established 
churches  of  Connecticut  with  their  Presbyterian  tendencies. 
Indeed,  there  was  an  organization  of  these  "  Strict  Congre- 
gational "  churches  in  Long  Island,  as  well  as  in  Connecticut, 
that  differed  from  their  sister  churches  in  disapproving  of  the 
Half-Way  Covenant  and  in  maintaining  the  independence  of 
the  local  church. 

There  were  also  settlements  of  New  Englanders  along  the 
Hudson  River  and  elsewhere  in  New  York,  in  which  Congre- 
gational churches  were  organized  at  an  early  date;  while  in 
New  Jersey,  from  the  time  when  the  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson 
brought  his  church  with  him  from  Connecticut  to  settle  New- 
ark for  conscience'  sake,  Congregational  churches  were  formed 
which  flourished  for  half  a  century.  The  Newark  Colony  in 
the  spring  of  1667  entered  into  an  agreement,  sixty-four  per- 
sons subscribing  to  it,  that  none  should  "  be  admitted  freemen 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

within  our  town  upon  Passaic  River  in  the  Province  of  New 
Jersey  but  such  planters  as  are  members  of  some  or  other  of 
the  Congregational  churches ; "  and  they  further  agreed : 

"  We  shall  with  care  and  diligence  provide  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
purity  of  religion  professed  in  the  Congregational  Churches." 

These  churches  were  independent,  comparatively  remote 
from  one  another,  in  scattered  settlements  with  no  organization 
to  bind  them  together.  After  about  forty  years,  the  first  pres- 
bytery in  America  was  organized  in  Philadelphia  in  1705  or 
1706.  This  presbytery,  says  Dr.  William  B.  Brown  in  his 
chapter  on  New  Jersey  in  Punchard's  "  History  of  Congrega- 
tionalism," had  at  its  organization  but  six  or  seven  members, 
the  majority  of  whom  were  Congregationalists.  It  was  merely 
a  "  consociation  "  for  twenty  years  until  after  the  Synod  of 
Philadelphia  had  been  formed,  to  include  with  it  three  similar 
presbyteries,  all  without  written  constitution  or  established 
creed,  or  any  form  of  discipline  or  authority  over  the  indi- 
vidual churches.  In  fact,  they  were  less  Presbyterian  than  the 
Connecticut  consociations,  and  the  churches  seeking  fellow- 
ship naturally  connected  themselves  with  these  presbyteries. 

But  in  1729  the  "  Enabling  Act,"  as  it  was  called,  was  passed 
by  the  synod,  recommending  the  Westminster  Confession  of 
Faith  and  the  Book  of  Discipline  to  the  churches,  and  seven 
years  later  "  these  standards  were  made  obligatory  not  only 
upon  the  synod  and  presbyteries,  but  upon  all  the  churches. 
The  Presbyterian  system  was  now  complete,  and  the  Congrega- 
tional churches  were  entangled  in  its  meshes.  But  they  were 
restless  there,  so  that  the  next  twenty  years  of  American  Pres- 
byterian history  were  years  of  contest  and  division." 

There  had  been  a  number  of  Scotch  or  Irish  Presbyterian 
ministers  settled  over  churches  in  New  York,  Philadelphia,  or 
in  the  vicinity  of  these  towns,  whose  influence  was  brought 
strongly  to  bear  upon  the  building  up  of  Presbyterian  organi- 
zation. Connecticut,  too,  as  has  been  intimated,  saw  that  the 
independence  of  local  churches  in  Massachusetts  had  made 
possible    serious    differences    of    faith    among    ministers    and 

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Hindrances  to  Congregationalism 

churches;  and,  growing  suspicious  of  Congregational  liberty, 
she  threw  her  influence,  as  neighbor  and  mother  colony  of 
New  Jersey,  in  favor  of  Presbyterianism.  Connecticut  felt, 
and  even  Massachusetts  seemed  to  feel,  that  independent 
churches  could  hardly  be  trusted  with  full  freedom  in  a  new 
country  where  neither  consociation  nor  association  was  at  hand 
to  direct  or  counsel;  so  newly  organized  churches  were  ad- 
vised to  join  the  nearest  presbytery.  The  accord  in  faith  be- 
tween the  two  systems  was  magnified,  the  differences  in  polity 
minimized,  both  by  the  presbytery  which  invited  and  the  con- 
sociation which  urged  the  amalgamation.  Doubtless  Con- 
necticut Congregationalists  were  drawn  nearer  to  New  York 
Presbyterians  by  their  common  dread  of  the  encroachments  of 
Episcopacy;  and  their  fear  that  liberty,  in  new  settlements, 
might  degenerate  into  license  was  heightened  by  the  horrors 
of  French  anarchy. 

But  Congregationalists  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey, 
though  they  adopted  the  Presbyterian  nomenclature,  were 
jealous  of  their  Congregational  liberty,  and  they  struggled  hard 
to  maintain  it.  Our  denominational  Year-Book  for  1899  gives 
the  names  of  twenty-seven  churches  in  New  York  State  or- 
ganized before  1800.  These  must  have  fought  a  good  fight 
barely  to  keep  alive,  through  the  first  thirty  years  of  the  nine- 
teenth century.  We  know  this  to  have  been  the  case  with  the 
little  church  in  Chester,  N.  J.,  founded  in  1740  (the  only  one 
now  left  to  the  New  Jersey  Association  from  that  century), 
which  joined  in  the  protest  made  by  a  company  of  ministers 
and  laymen  who,  in  1780,  withdrew  from  the  Presbytery  of 
New  York  and  the  Synod  of  New  York  and  Philadelphia. 

These  stout  old  Puritans  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey 
formed  a  presbytery  known,  later,  as  the  Associated  Presbytery 
of  Morris  County.    They  declared :  * 

"  We  think  that  the  presbyterianism  of  the  Church  of  Scotland  and 
of  the  Synod  of  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  is  not  wholly  founded  on 
scripture;   but  that  it  takes  the  power  too  much  out  of  the  hands  of  the 

*A  Brief  Account  of  the  Associated  Presbyteries,  published  1796,  pp.  9,  11. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

brethren  of  the  church  and  gives  an  unscriptural  and  an  unreasonable 
power  to  the  elders,  etc." 

"  We  find  the  synod  have  made  many  rules,  canons,  or  orders,  which 
we  think  very  inconsistent  with  the  liberties  of  christian  churches,  which 
rules  or  orders  now  stand  on  their  records:  and  we  have  found  our- 
selves cramped  and  restrained  by  those  rules,  etc." 

In  their  "  agreements  "  when  organizing  we  read : 

"  We  agree  that  this  presbytery  as  a  body,  shall  never  assume  or 
claim  any  jurisdiction  over  the  churches,  etc." 

"  The  presbytery  shall  make  no  rules  which  shall  be  authoritative, 
etc." 

This  Associated  Presbytery  was  divided,  twelve  years  later, 
for  the  sake  of  convenience,  and  the  Associated  Westchester 
Presbytery  was  formed;  and  a  year  later,  in  1793,  the  North- 
ern Associated  Presbytery  in  the  State  of  New  York  was 
organized,  encouraged  thereto  by  the  two  previously  formed 
and  by  the  Association  of  Berkshire  County  in  Massachusetts. 
One  man  alone,  the  Rev.  John  Spencer,  licensed  by  this  asso- 
ciation in  1800,  gathered  nearly  all  the  churches  in  Oneida 
County,  forming,  between  1804  and  1816,  about  thirty  churches 
on  a  Congregational  basis.  Yet  another  and  fourth,  the  Sara- 
toga Associated  Presbytery,  was  formed  in  1807.  At  that 
date,  these  associations,  Congregational  bodies  with  a  Pres- 
byterian name,  were  strong  and  increasing  in  strength.  Be- 
fore 1816  at  least  two  hundred  Congregational  churches  had 
been  organized  in  New  York,  and,  but  for  the  unfortunate 
Plan  of  Union,  unfortunate  for  both  denominations,  Congre- 
gationalism would  doubtless  have  become  the  prevailing  church 
polity  in  New  York,  Ohio,  and  other  of  the  Middle  States. 

When  settlers  began  to  pour  into  "  Western  New  York  " 
from  Massachusetts  and  into  the  "  Western  Reserve  "  of  Ohio 
from  Connecticut,  home  missionaries  were  sent  after  them  to 
organize  churches  in  the  new  settlements.  At  first  eight  Con- 
necticut pastors  were  appointed  by  the  General  Association  to 
visit,  each  for  four  months,  the  Western  country;  but  after 
the  Connecticut  Missionary  Society  began  to  work  in  1798  it 
sent  out  many  men  into  the  field.    Missionaries  were  also  sent 

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Hindrances  to  Congregationalism 

from  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire  by  their  local  socie- 
ties. Before  1800  there  were  nineteen  Congregational  churches 
in  Western  New  York  and  but  four  Presbyterian;  and  from 
1800  to  181 5  there  were  sixty  Congregational  and  eighteen 
Presbyterian  churches,  the  missionaries  being  supported  in  the 
main  by  Congregational  societies. 

As  far  back  as  1766  there  was  a  joint  convention  of  the 
Synod  of  New  York  and  Philadelphia  and  the  General  Asso- 
ciation of  Connecticut.  This  met  annually  for  a  series  of  years 
until  interrupted  by  the  stirring  events  of  the  Revolution. 
After  the  war,  when  the  General  Association  made  overtures 
for  closer  union  with  the  Presbyterians,  a  joint  agreement  was 
made  in  1794  which  allowed  delegates  from  either  body  to 
attend  the  meetings  of  the  other  with  all  the  rights  of  mem- 
bership. As  both  Presbyterians  and  Congregationalists  had 
home  missionaries  laboring  in  the  newly  opened  sections, 
though  the  latter  were  pushing  the  work  far  more  vigorously 
than  the  former,  it  was  thought  that  some  plan  of  union  might 
be  devised,  by  which  they  might  work  harmoniously.  Such  a 
plan  was  agreed  upon  in  1801.  This  plan  was  intended  to 
work  with  absolute  fairness  for  the  interests  of  both  parties 
to  the  agreement,  and  for  a  few  years  it  seemed  so  to  do. 

The  Plan  of  Union  *  allowed  churches  with  pastors  of  the 
other  denomination  to  conduct  their  affairs  according  to  their 
own  church  polity,  while  the  pastors  kept  their  own  affiliation 
with  association  or  presbytery  and  referred  their  difficulties 
to  them  for  advice  or  decision.  Churches  whose  membership 
was  made  up  of  both  denominations  were  advised  to  have  a 
standing  committee  through  whom  all  discipline  was  to  be 
administered  to  members ;  appeal  being  allowed  a  Presbyterian 
member  to  the  presbytery  and  a  Congregationalist  to  the  body 
of  church  members,  or  to  a  council.  These  standing  commit- 
tees could  depute  a  member  to  attend  presbytery  with  the  same 
rights  there  as  any  ruling  elder  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

With  this  tiny  wedge  a  small  opening  was  made  which  was 
enlarged    by    a    later    plan    through    which    Congregational 
*  See  Appendix  A. 
II 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

churches  and  ministers,  while  still  Congregational,  were  offi- 
cially brought  into  presbyteries.  First,  in  1806,  the  Albany 
Presbytery  proposed  to  the  Northern  Associated  Presbytery, 
that  strong  Congregational  association  and  conference,  that 
members  of  either  body  occasionally  present  at  a  meeting  of 
the  other  should  be  invited  to  sit  and  act  as  corresponding 
members  of  the  same.  The  next  year  the  Synod  of  Albany 
admitted  the  Congregational  churches  of  the  region  to  be  rep- 
resented by  ministers  and  delegates  with  full  rights  of  Presby- 
terian members  at  the  meetings  of  the  synod,  always  provided 
that  while  acting  with  the  synod  they  use  Presbyterian  stand- 
ards of  doctrine  and  government.  The  churches,  feeling  they 
were  to  reap  the  benefits  of  association  with  a  highly  organized 
body,  adopted  the  plan  blindly,  expecting  to  retain  their  own 
polity;  but  soon  they  were  transformed,  in  name  if  not  in 
nature,  and  were  reported  in  the  minutes  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  Presbyteries  were  formed  where  there  were  but  a 
handful  of  Presbyterians,  and  ministers  and  churches  invited 
and  urged  to  join  them  without  giving  up  their  connection  with 
their  own  association.  A  majority  vote  in  the  membership  of 
a  church  would  carry  it  into  the  presbytery,  but  a  unanimous 
vote  was  required  for  it  to  withdraw  unless  it  had  permission 
of  presbytery.  And  while  presbytery,  synod,  and  General  As- 
sembly were  welcoming  them  with  open  arms,  they  were 
pushed  out  vigorously  from  the  Congregational  fold  by  Con- 
necticut and  Massachusetts.  The  American  Education  So- 
ciety recommended  "  all  young  men  who  go  from  New 
England  into  the  boundaries  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  to  unite  with  the  Presbyterians  and  not 
to  hold  on  upon  Congregationalism."  The  Home  Missionary 
Societies  did  the  same.  They  did  not  encourage  their  mission- 
aries to  unite  their  newly  formed  churches  into  associations 
of  their  own,  and  Congregationalism,  "  west  of  Byram  River," 
was  hardly  countenanced  by  orthodox  New  England. 

But  the  Congregational  element  in  the  Presbyterian  Church 
was  progressive,  independent,  and  hard  to  assimilate.  Their 
New    England    trained   ministers    were   accused    of   heresies. 

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Hindrances  to  Congregationalism 

Princeton  and  New  Haven  theology  were  not  in  accord.  Mr. 
Finney,  too,  was  preaching  new  doctrines  and  introducing  new 
revival  methods,  and  New  School  ideas  were  gaining  ground 
through  Congregational  influence.  The  more  conservative 
Presbyterians  felt  that  Congregational  churches  ought  to  have 
no  representatives  in  General  Assembly. 

In  carrying  out  the  Plan  of  Union,  Congregationalists  and 
Presbyterians  had  joined  forces  in  missionary  effort.  Both 
had  worked  through  the  American  Board  and  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society.  But  Presbyterians  of  the  Old 
School  grew  suspicious  of  the  joint  home  missionary  work 
and  of  the  American  Education  Society.  They  were  apt  to 
supply  men  with  a  New  School  bias. 

After  two  or  three  years  of  struggle  the  Old  School  party, 
in  1837,  carried  the  General  Assembly,  abrogated  the  Plan  of 
Union,  declared  the  Home  Missionary  and  Education  Societies 
"  injurious  to  the  peace  and  purity  of  the  Presbyterian  Church," 
and  cut  off  four  synods — the  Western  Reserve,  Utica,  Geneva, 
and  Genesee — all  made  up  of  churches  formed  under  the  Plan 
of  Union,  and  ordered  the  Philadelphia  Presbytery  dissolved. 

The  following  year  the  New  School  Presbyterian  Church 
was  organized.  In  church  and  humanitarian  doctrines  Con- 
gregational churches,  formed  under  the  Plan  of  Union,  were 
in  sympathy  with  New  School  Presbyterians.  The  latter  con- 
tinued their  missionary  work  through  the  societies  organized 
by  Congregationalists,  and  Congregational  churches  retained 
presbyterial  relations  in  the  exscinded  synods.  Many  of  those 
even  of  the  Associated  Presbyteries  who  had  held  out  hereto- 
fore in  opposing  Old  School  doctrines  and  Presbyterian  dis- 
cipline went  over  now  to  the  New  School  church,  and  many 
Congregational  churches  and  ministers,  especially  in  Ohio, 
joined  the  new  movement.  It  has  been  stated  authoritatively 
that  as  many  as  2,000  churches,  originally  Congregational,  were, 
by  the  Plan  of  Union  and  these  subsequent  influences,  swept 
into  the  Presbyterian  fold. 

But  there  was  yet  left  some  Congregational  leaven  in  the 
State  of  New  York.    In  1834,  four  years  before  this  split  in 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

the  Church,  the  General  Association  of  New  York  was  formed. 
At  that  date  there  were  one  hundred  and  eight  Congregational 
churches  gathered  into  local  New  York  associations,  besides 
scattering  ones  that  were  not  associated.  The  formation  of 
this  General  Association  gave  a  new  impetus  to  the  denomina- 
tion, and  in  1840,  the  year  that  saw  Broadway  Tabernacle  re- 
organized, there  were  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  Congre- 
gational churches  connected  with  eight  district  associations, 
besides  fifteen  that  remained  independent  churches. 

But  the  Plan  of  Union  still  worked  friction,  particularly  in 
the  West.  When  the  Convention  called  by  the  General  Asso- 
ciation of  Michigan  met  at  Michigan  City,  Ind.,  July  30,  1846, 
Mr.  David  Hale,  founder  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church, 
a  stout,  clear-headed  Congregationalism  was  sent  from  this 
church  as  delegate.    Of  this  meeting  he  wrote  as  follows :  * 

"  On  the  question  of  abrogating  the  Plan  of  Union  there  was  perfect 
harmony.  .  .  .  The  Western  men  called  the  Convention,  and  every 
man,  whether  from  the  West  or  the  East,  agreed  that  the  plan  of  1801 
ought  to  be  abandoned  and  no  new  one  formed.    .    .    . 

"  The  history  of  the  Union  of  1801  proved  to  the  Michigan  City  Con- 
vention that  in  its  perversions  it  had  been  a  fountain  of  discord,  of  evils 
great  and  multiplied,  beyond  farther  endurance,  and  that  one  of  three 
things  must  be  done,  viz. :  this  controversy  must  continue  and  endure,  or 
Congregationalism  must  be  abandoned  and  handed  over  to  Presby- 
terianism,  or  a  friendly  and  entire  separation  must  be  pronounced.  We 
unanimously  adopted  the  last  alternative." 

Six  years  later,  in  1852,  when  a  general  convention  of 
Congregationalists  of  the  United  States  was  held  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  this  Plan  of  Union,  which  both  denominations  were 
now  ready  to  repudiate,  was  formally  set  aside. 

*  Dr.  Joseph  P.  Thompson's  Memoir  of  Davia  Hale,  pp.  296,  300. 


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CHAPTER   II. 
DR.    FINNEY'S   WORK   IN    NEW   YORK. 

The  great  revival  movement  which  began  with  the  conver- 
sion of  Charles  Grandison  Finney  continued  for  a  series  of 
years  in  New  York  City.  Broadway  Tabernacle  was  but  one 
of  many  churches  growing  out  of  that  movement.  Mr.  Fin- 
ney's imprint  upon  the  church  was  clearly  marked  during  its 
earlier  years,  so  much  so  that  no  adequate  history  of  the  Tab- 
ernacle could  be  written  without  taking  into  account  the  won- 
derful work  and  personality  of  that  prince  of  revival  preachers. 

Mr.  Finney  was  a  native  of  Warren,  Conn.  He  was  born 
August  29,  1792.  When  not  more  than  two  years  of  age  his 
parents  moved  to  the  wilderness  of  Oneida  County,  New 
York.  There  he  was  sent  to  a  common  school,  summer  and 
winter,  until  about  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he 
was  considered  capable  of  conducting  such  a  school  himself. 

His  parents  were  not  religious,  and  he  enjoyed  no  religious 
privileges,  saw  few  religious  books,  heard  no  intelligent  preach- 
ing of  the  Gospel.  Indeed,  he  seldom  heard  any  sermon  at 
all  except  from  some  itinerant  expounder,  ignorant  and  ridi- 
culed by  his  more  critical  and  better  instructed  hearers.  Just 
as  the  little  community  had  built  their  meeting-house  and  set- 
tled a  minister,  his  father  moved  still  further  into  the  wilds. 

In  the  course  of  a  few  years,  when  about  twenty  years  old, 
Mr.  Finney  returned  to  Connecticut,  where  he  had  some  oppor- 
tunity for  study.  He  taught  in  New  Jersey  for  a  while,  going 
back  now  and  then  to  Connecticut  for  a  season's  study  in  the 
High  School,  until,  when  perhaps  twenty-five  or  twenty-six 
years  old  (for  Mr.  Finney's  *  figures  are  not  always  to  be 
trusted),  at  the  solicitation  of  his  parents,  he  returned  to  their 

*  Memoirs  of  Rev.   Charles  G.  Finney,  written  by  himself. 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

home  in  Jefferson  County,  New  York,  and  soon  after  entered, 
as  a  student,  a  law  office  in  the  town  of  Adams  in  that  county. 

In  Connecticut  Mr.  Finney  had  heard  the  old  village  preacher 
deliver  his  old  manuscript  sermons  which  he  read  in  a  mono- 
tone ;  and  during  his  years  in  New  Jersey  he  hardly  heard  a 
half  dozen  English  sermons,  as  the  preaching  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  his  school  was  in  German.  So  when  Mr.  Finney  went 
to  Adams  he  had  no  definite  knowledge  of  religious  truth. 
Here  for  the  first  time  he  became  interested  in  church  services. 
He  went  to  the  weekly  prayer  meeting  as  often  as  his  office 
duties  would  permit,  listened  to  the  prayers  of  good  men  with 
pleased  attention,  but  puzzled  all  the  while  because  they  prayed 
to  be  revived  without  any  apparent  expectation  of  receiving 
an  answer  to  their  prayers.  He  led  the  church  choir,  taught 
the  young  people  sacred  music,  and  put  himself  under  religious 
influences.  His  study  of  the  law  and  its  frequent  references 
to  the  Mosaic  Institutes  led  him  to  purchase  a  Bible,  the  first 
he  had  ever  owned,  which  he  read  and  studied.  His  pastor, 
the  Rev.  George  W.  Gale,  who  afterward  founded  the  town 
of  Galesburg,  111.,  with  its  college,  girls'  seminary,  and  acad- 
emy, was  an  Old  School  Presbyterian,  versed  in  Princeton 
theology.  His  preaching  and  statements  of  doctrine  drew  Mr. 
Finney  into  discussions  with  the  minister  into  which  they  both 
entered  with  zest,  renewing  their  discussions  frequently  for 
two  or  three  years.  He  criticised  Mr.  Gale's  preaching  with 
plainness  and  severity,  asked  for  definitions  of  his  theological 
terms,  and  with  his  lawyer's  training,  picked  flaws  in  the  min- 
ister's logic,  pointing  out  the  mystifications  of  his  theology  un- 
til the  latter  was  impelled  to  warn  young  men  of  his  parish 
to  beware  of  Mr.  Finney's  heterodox  influence. 

But,  notwithstanding  his  doubts  of  the  preacher's  scheme  of 
divinity,  and  of  the  church's  faith,  his  belief  in  the  truth  of 
the  Bible  strengthened ;  and  its  doctrines,  as  they  came  to  him 
with  freshness  from  his  own  original  Bible  study,  he  received 
intellectually  until  his  mind  was  made  up  to  begin  a  Christian 
life.  His  struggle  with  pride  and  shame  and  the  final  com- 
plete surrender  of  his  will  to  the  will  of  God  he  describes 

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graphically  in  his  autobiography,  as  well  as  the  marvellous  bap- 
tism of  the  Holy  Ghost  that  followed. 

"  Without  any  expectation  of  it,  without  ever  having  the  thought 
in  my  mind  that  there  was  any  such  thing  for  me,  without  any  recol- 
lection that  I  had  ever  heard  the  thing  mentioned  by  any  person  in  the 
world,  the  Holy  Spirit  descended  upon  me  in  a  manner  that  seemed  to 
go  through  me,  body  and  soul.  I  could  feel  the  impression,  like  a  wave 
of  electricity,  going  through  and  through  me.  Indeed,  it  seemed  to 
come  in  waves  and  waves  of  liquid  love;  for  I  could  not  express  it  in 
any  other  way.  It  seemed  like  the  very  breath  of  God.  I  can  recollect 
distinctly  that  it  seemed  to  fan  me,  like  immense  wings. 

"  No  words  can  express  the  wonderful  love  that  was  shed  abroad  in 
my  heart.  I  wept  aloud  with  joy  and  love ;  and  I  do  not  know  but  I 
should  say,  I  literally  bellowed  out  the  unutterable  gushings  of  my  heart. 
These  waves  came  over  me,  and  over  me,  and  over  me,  one  after  the 
other,  until  I  recollect  I  cried  out,  '  I  shall  die  if  these  waves  con- 
tinue to  pass  over  me.'  I  said,  '  Lord,  I  cannot  bear  any  more ; '  yet  I 
had  no  fear  of  death." 

Like  St.  Paul,  Jonathan  Edwards,  and  William  Tennent,  he 
seemed  to  meet  the  Lord  Jesus  face  to  face,  and  by  these  spirit- 
ual experiences  and  rapture  of  emotion  to  be  set  apart,  as  they 
were,  for  special  service  as  God's  minister.  He  had  said  when 
he  first  realized  that  faith  was  not  intellectual  belief  but  volun- 
tary trust,  while  he  prayed  and  trusted  without  realizing  his 
heart  was  already  changed,  "If  I  am  ever  converted,  I  will 
preach  the  Gospel."  The  very  next  day  after  these  ecstasies,  he 
began,  at  once,  the  fulfilment  of  his  vow.  The  lawyer  with 
whom  he  had  studied,  the  deacon  who  had  retained  him  to 
plead  his  case  in  court  that  morning,  were  heartstricken  with 
his  first  words  and  retired,  the  one  to  pray  until  he  too  was 
a  convert,  the  other  to  settle  his  suit  in  a  Christian  manner. 
He  had  the  impression,  he  says,  that  God  wanted  him  to  preach 
the  Gospel,  and  that  he  must  begin  immediately.  He  seemed 
to  know  it  without  the  possibility  of  doubt;  and  he  felt  un- 
willing to  do  anything  else.  Every  person  to  whom  he  spoke 
that  day  was,  soon  afterward,  converted.  An  impromptu  con- 
ference meeting  gathered  in  the  evening,  and  the  house  was 
packed.    Without  waiting  for  any  one  to  open  the  services  Mr. 

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Finney  arose  and  told  the  story  of  his  conversion.  With  this 
his  revival  work  began.  Night  by  night  the  people  gathered 
for  conference  and  prayer,  and  the  community  of  the  town, 
reaching  far  into  its  outskirts,  was  powerfully  moved,  the  re- 
vival going  on  all  winter.  Soon  he  visited  his  parents  in  Hen- 
derson, staying  but  a  few  days,  and  there  the  same  results 
followed  his  words.  His  father  and  mother  were  among  the 
first  converts. 

In  the  spring  he  offered  himself  to  the  presbytery  as  a  can- 
didate for  the  Gospel  ministry.  They  urged  upon  him  a  theo- 
logical course  in  Princeton,  which  he  declined.  His  pastor 
was  then  appointed  to  superintend  his  theological  studies ;  but 
the  two  were  diametrically  opposed  to  each  other  in  theological 
thought.  Mr.  Gale  urged  the  doctrine  of  original  sin,  of  man's 
inability  to  comply  with  the  Gospel  terms.  He  taught,  so  Mr. 
Finney  understood,  that  the  Spirit  of  God  acted  directly  upon 
the  nature  and  substance  of  man's  soul  without  any  action  of 
the  will  itself;  that  man  was  passive  in  regeneration  and  that 
Jesus  literally  paid  the  debt  of  the  elect.  He  limited  the  atone- 
ment to  the  elect  and  held  that  men  were  free  to  all  evil  but 
not  free  to  all  good,  and  that  God  condemned  them  for  the 
sinful  nature  they  inherited.  This  old  straw  they  threshed 
over  and  over  again.  Mr.  Finney  would  go  away  discouraged, 
saying  he  could  find  none  of  these  doctrines  in  the  Bible,  and 
a  saintly  old  elder  who  believed  in  the  Old  School  doctrines, 
but  also  in  Mr.  Finney,  and  who  prayed  for  him  daily  as  long 
as  he  lived,  would  go  with  him  to  his  room,  where  till  late  in 
the  evening  they  would  pray  together  for  more  light  and 
strength  and  faith. 

Notwithstanding  his  New  School  theology,  after  two  years 
of  study,  Mr.  Finney  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the  presbytery, 
though  he  refused  to  surrender  his  judgment  or  reason  to  the 
teaching  of  his  theological  guide.  It  speaks  well  for  both  of 
these  men  that  they  remained  warm  friends,  respecting  and  lov- 
ing each  other  through  all  their  differences.  Later  Mr.  Gale 
came  around  in  many  respects  to  his  pupil's  way  of  thinking. 

In  ministerial  practice,  too,  Mr.  Finney  differed  from  the 

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preachers  about  him.  His  training  had  been  for  the  law,  and 
he  believed  in  the  lawyer's  practice  of  presenting  his  proposi- 
tions and  repeating  points  and  arguments  over  and  over  until 
he  had  persuaded  and  convinced  his  hearers  of  their  truth.  He 
refused  to  read  his  sermons,  but  persisted  in  arguing  his  case 
for  an  hour  or  more,  frequently  preaching  an  hour  and  a  half, 
with  irresistible  force.  The  hearer  all  the  time  felt  that  Mr. 
Finney  was  talking  to  him  personally  rather  than  preaching 
before  an  audience.  That  was  the  usual  effect  upon  his  hearers. 
It  was  the  effect  he  aimed  at.  He  did  not  speak  about  sinners 
in  the  abstract,  but  he  talked  to  the  individual  sinners  before 
him.  The  simplicity  of  his  manner  and  diction  was  in  marked 
contrast  with  that  of  most  preachers  of  his  time.  Their  ser- 
mons were  apt  to  degenerate  into  literary  essays  with  fine  writ- 
ing and  classical  illustrations.  Mr.  Finney,  like  our  Lord,  drew 
his  illustrations  from  common  every-day  life ;  he  used  the  words 
of  daily  speech  that  all  could  understand ;  his  one  aim  was  to 
persuade  and  convert  men,  and  he  meant  to  hold  their  atten- 
tion at  all  hazards. 

In  March,  1824,  he  began  work  as  a  home  missionary  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  county,  having  taken  a  commission  for 
six  months  from  a  woman's  missionary  society  in  Oneida 
County.  Revivals  began  wherever  he  went.  The  means  used 
he  enumerates :  "  preaching,  prayer,  and  conference  meetings, 
much  private  prayer,  much  personal  conversation,  and  meetings 
for  the  instruction  of  earnest  inquirers."  *  No  other  means 
were  employed  by  him  in  this  missionary  work. 

To  illustrate  the  simplicity  of  Mr.  Finney's  sermons,  we  are 
told  that  some  one  on  being  asked  if  he  had  heard  the  revivalist 
preach  replied,  "  I  have  been  to  Mr.  Finney's  meeting.  He 
doesn't  preach;  he  only  explains  what  other  people  preach." 
But  his  whole  nature  was  simple,  and  he  took  no  thought  as 
to  manner  or  style  in  public  or  private  prayer,  or  pulpit  utter- 
ances ;  he  merely  went  straight  to  his  point,  a  habit  he  carried 
through  life  which  gave  rise  to  many  popular  stories  about 
him.    Mrs.  Olive  Thome  Miller  tells  an  incident  which  illus- 

*  Finney's  Memoirs  of  Charles  G.  Finney,  p.  77. 
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trates  this.  Her  mother,  though  not  a  trained  singer,  had  a 
sweet  and  sympathetic  voice  most  acceptable  in  the  choir,  and 
Mr.  Finney  set  a  high  value  upon  music  in  church  services. 
Perhaps  the  famous  church  choir  of  Oberlin,  and  Dr.  Warner's 
magnificent  gifts  to  Oberlin's  musical  department,  may  be 
traced  to  Dr.  Finney's  influence.  However  that  may  be,  seeing 
one  Sunday  morning  this  lady  seated  in  the  audience  at  the 
Oberlin  church,  just  as  he  was  about  to  give  out  a  hymn,  he 
beckoned  her  with  his  finger,  and,  motioning  toward  the  choir, 
called  out,  "  Mary,  Mary,  come  up  here."  In  his  "  Memoirs  "  * 
he  tells  very  simply  of  one  of  his  prayers  and  its  answer :  "  I 
had  begun  to  need  clothes  and  had  once,  not  long  before,  spoken 
to  the  Lord  about  it,  that  my  clothes  were  getting  shabby,  but 
it  had  not  occurred  to  me  again."  The  sequel  hardly  needs  to 
be  told.  Some  kind-hearted  man  who  had  attended  his  services 
and  had  recognized  his  need  sent  a  tailor  from  a  neighboring 
city  to  take  his  measure  for  a  new  suit. 

A  marked  feature  of  the  revivals  that  followed  Mr.  Finney's 
labors  was  the  prevailing  spirit  of  prayer.  He,  and  the  Chris- 
tians who  worked  with  him,  felt  the  burden  of  souls,  and 
prayed  with  intense  fervor.     He  says :  f 

"  A  spirit  of  importunity  sometimes  came  upon  me  so  that  I  would 
say  to  God  that  He  had  made  a  promise  to  answer  prayer,  and  I  could 
not,  and  would  not  be  denied.  I  felt  so  certain  He  would  hear  me,  and 
that  faithfulness  to  His  promises  and  to  Himself  rendered  it  impossible 
that  He  should  not  hear  and  answer,  that  frequently  I  found  myself 
saying  to  Him,  '  I  hope  Thou  dost  not  think  that  I  can  be  denied.  I 
come  with  Thy  faithful  promises  in  my  hand,  and  I  cannot  be  denied.' 
I  cannot  tell  how  absurd  unbelief  looked  to  me,  and  how  certain  it  was, 
in  my  mind,  that  God  would  answer  prayer — those  prayers  that,  from 
day  to  day,  and  from  hour  to  hour,  I  found  myself  offering  in  such 
agony  and  faith." 

The  more  powerful  outpouring  of  the  Spirit  of  God  for  which 
he  had  agonized  began  in  his  visit  to  Western,  in  Oneida  County. 
This  was  the  beginning  of  a  remarkable  series  known  as  the 
"  Western  revivals."     Three  thousand  souls  were  numbered 

*  P.  138:  f  Memoirs,  p.  142. 

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among  the  converts  within  the  limits  of  Oneida  Presbytery. 
Large  towns — Rome,  Utica,  Auburn,  Troy — were  included  in 
this  movement,  which  covered  the  years  1826  and  1827.  Mr. 
Finney  went  from  town  to  town,  and  in  every  place  multitudes 
were  gathered  into  the  churches.  Such  a  wonderful  religious 
upheaval  could  not  fail  to  provoke  criticism.  Some  reports  de- 
rogatory to  Mr.  Finney's  doctrines  and  practices  were  circulated 
industriously  at  the  East,  and  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher,  and  Mr.  Net- 
tleton,  the  New  England  revivalist,  opposed  Mr.  Finney  and 
showed  suspicion  of  his  "  new  revival  methods  "  in  a  convention 
held  in  New  Lebanon,  N.  Y.,  for  the  sake  of  examining  into 
this  evangelistic  work  which  had  begun  to  attract  the  attention 
of  all  Christian  leaders  in  the  country.  The  charges,  which  ap- 
pear to  have  been  brought  in  a  friendly  way,  without  acrimony, 
were  not  sustained  or  proven,  and  Mr.  Finney  continued  his 
work  with  increasing  success,  going  still  farther  afield.  He  vis- 
ited Wilmington,  Del. ;  Reading,  Pa. ;  and  Philadelphia,  spend- 
ing more  than  a  year  in  the  latter  city,  and  growing  more  as- 
sured of  his  methods  as  God  gave  him  success,  and  more  con- 
fident of  results. 

Up  to  this  time  he  had  not  preached  in  New  York.  Although 
many  earnest  Christians  were  eager  for  him  to  begin  work  in 
the  city,  the  ministers  hesitated  to  ask  him.  It  was  Anson  G. 
Phelps,  the  Christian  layman  and  philanthropist,  who,  having 
learned  that  Mr.  Finney  had  not  been  invited  to  any  New  York 
pulpit,  hired  a  vacant  church  in  Vandewater  Street  and  urged 
him  to  come  and  preach  there.  Dr.  Lansing,  of  Auburn,  and 
Dr.  Beman,  of  Troy,  who  had  rejoiced  in  his  labors  in  their 
own  churches,  accompanied  him  and  remained  with  him  for  a 
week  at  Mr.  Phelps's  house,  where  a  succession  of  prayer- 
meetings  was  held.  As  the  church  could  be  hired  for  only 
three  months,  before  the  time  expired  Mr.  Phelps  bought  a 
house  of  worship  in  Prince  Street,  where  a  church  was  soon 
organized. 

The  New  York  Evangelist,  established  about  the  time  that 
Mr.  Finney  first  appeared  in  New  York,  was  devoted  to  the 
interests  of  evangelistic  revival  work,  and  maintained  the  prin- 

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ciples  of  the  New  School  party,  though  this  was  some  years 
before  the  division  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  In  an  issue  of 
The  Evangelist,  May  29,  1830,  appears  a  note  on  Mr.  Finney's 
revival  work.  It  states  that  the  Union  Presbyterian  Church  was 
organized  October  13,  1829,*  and  goes  on  to  say: 

"  Soon  afterwards  Rev.  C.  G.  Finney  commenced  a  course  of  labor 
there  which  has  continued  until  the  present  time.  .  .  .  From  the  re- 
sults of  this  revival  one  hundred  and  three  persons  have  joined  this 
church  by  profession  and  forty-two  by  letter.  Many  have  united  with 
other  churches.  Probably  more  than  two  hundred  have  been  hope- 
fully renewed  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  The  work  is  still 
progressing." 

But  little  more  than  a  month  later  another  result  of  Mr.  Fin- 
ney's work  is  noticed  in  the  issue  of  June  20th : 

"  A  Hall  has  been  hired  in  Thames  Street,  near  Broadway,  being  a 
room  formerly  occupied  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Romeyn's  church  as  a  lecture 
room.  It  is  conveniently  fitted  up  and  will  contain  about  four  hundred 
persons.  Several  people  belonging  to  other  churches  have  formed  an 
association  to  worship  in  this  place.  An  invitation  has  been  given  to 
the  Rev.  Joel  Parker,  of  Rochester,  New  York,  to  become  the  minister. 
He  has  accepted  the  call  and  will  commence  his  ministry  in  this  city  the 
next  Lord's  Day." 

Mr.  Parker,  it  should  be  noted,  had  been  an  active  worker 
with  Mr.  Finney  in  the  "  Western  revivals."  This  church  to 
which  Mr.  Parker  was  called  became  known  as  the  First  Free 
Presbyterian  Church  of  New  York,  and  was  organized  by  Mr. 
Lewis  Tappan,  aided  by  his  brother  Arthur,  Dr.  James  C.  Bliss, 
and  some  others  who  wished  to  introduce  new  and  more  practical 
measures  for  the  conversion  of  men.  They  upheld  the  theory, 
popular  with  the  more  active  evangelistic  workers  of  that  period 
and  not  yet  wholly  out  of  date,  that  churches  should  be  free  to 
all,  and  that  they  should  be  planted  where  the  population  is 
densest.  There  was  no  rapid  transit  in  those  days ;  horse  cars 
were  unknown,  and  church  goers  went  to  their  Sabbath  Day 
services  on  foot  or  by  private  conveyance.    It  seemed  necessary 

•  Mr.  Finney  gives  the  date  of  his  first  preaching  in  New  York  as  1830,  but 
it  could  not  have  been  later  than  August,  1829. 

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to  these  devoted  brethren,  the  Christian  Endeavorers  of  their 
day,  to  multiply  churches,  in  order  to  accommodate  the  grow- 
ing population  of  the  city.  The  cost  of  the  work  fell  upon  the 
few  men  who  had  both  means  and  Christian  enthusiasm.  Mr. 
Arthur  Tappan,  whose  princely  generosity  always  equalled  if 
it  did  not  outrun  his  financial  ability,  gave  the  use  of  the 
Masonic  Hall,  of  which  he  had  the  lease,  until  the  term  ex- 
pired and  aided  the  enterprise  materially  in  other  ways.  Seven 
of  these  churches  were  formed  in  the  course  of  a  few  years 
in  New  York  City,  and  great  numbers  of  people  were  attracted 
to  them  and  brought  into  their  membership. 

Shortly  after  the  formation  of  this  church,  Mr.  Finney  closed 
his  meetings  in  New  York  City,  and  took  up  his  evangelistic 
work  in  other  towns  in  New  York  State  and  in  New  England, 
especially  in  Boston.  During  the  eighteen  months  following 
Mr.  Finney's  departure,  New  York  churches  and  ministers  did 
much  to  promote  a  more  earnest  religious  life  in  the  city.  Pro- 
tracted meetings  were  held  in  several  churches  lasting  three  or 
four  days,  and  summer  morning  prayer-meetings  at  half-past 
five  were  frequent  and  well  attended.  Churches  multiplied.  A 
Congregational  Church  was  organized,  December,  183 1,  and  on 
Tuesday,  February  14,  1832,  the  Second  Free  Presbyterian 
Church  of  the  city  of  New  York  was  constituted  with  forty-one 
members,  mostly  colonists  from  the  First  Free  Church  under 
Rev.  Joel  Parker's  care.  Their  first  place  of  worship  was 
Broadway  Hall,  just  above  Canal  Street.  Out  of  this  Second 
Free  Church,  in  the  course  of  eight  years,  the  present  Broad- 
way Tabernacle  Church  was  evolved. 

For  ten  years  Mr.  Finney  had  gone  from  place  to  place,  labor- 
ing incessantly  as  an  evangelist ;  now  with  strength  overstrained 
and  with  a  strong  desire  to  establish  for  his  wife,  three  children, 
and  himself  a  settled  home,  it  is  not  surprising  that  he  felt  in- 
clined to  listen  to  the  suggestion  that  he  should  become  the  pas- 
tor of  this  new  church. 

Six  months  before,  July  23,  1831,  The  Evangelist  had  pub- 
lished an  account  of  a  plan  for  a  large,  substantial  building  in 
a  central  part  of  the  city,  to  accommodate  from  5,000  to  6,000 

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persons,  with  seats  free  and  open  to  all ;  three  preaching  ser- 
vices on  the  Lord's  day,  and  one  or  two  during  the  week ;  the 
pulpit  to  be  supplied  by  the  different  clergymen  of  the  city,  in 
turn,  except  occasionally  by  clergymen  from  abroad  visiting  in 
town.  Such  a  building,  the  writer  declared,  was  much  needed 
as  a  place  for  the  annual  meetings  of  the  various  benevolent 
societies.  These  "  May  Meetings  "  brought  many  strangers  to 
the  city,  and,  for  want  of  such  a  central  house,  many  hundreds 
of  Christians  were  debarred  from  attendance.  This  subject  was 
offered  for  the  consideration  of  business  men,  especially,  who 
would  be  likely  to  see  the  need  of  some  such  accommodation 
as  the  resort  of  many  strangers  constantly  visiting  the  city. 
The  appeal  closed,  "  I  feel  confident  that  there  are  many  thou- 
sands in  this  city  who  are  not  professedly  Christians  who 
would  contribute  liberally  toward  this  object  if  they  had  oppor- 
tunity." 

It  was  soon  decided  to  secure,  if  possible,  the  lease  of  the 
Chatham  Street  Theatre;  and  a  public  meeting  was  held  at 
which  Mr.  Arthur  Tappan  presided.  Eight  thousand  dollars 
was  subscribed,  and  Messrs.  Lewis  Tappan,  William  Green, 
Jr.,  and  others  associated  in  this  enterprise,  purchased  the 
lease  of  the  theatre  for  a  period  of  ten  years,  and  fitted  it 
up  as  a  place  of  worship  for  the  Second  Free  Presbyterian 
Church.  It  would  seat  at  least  2,000  persons,  and  Mr.  Fin- 
ney accepted  the  call  to  become  pastor  of  the  church.  The 
opening  of  this  building,  known  for  some  years  as  the  Chat- 
ham Street  Chapel,  and  used  for  May  Meetings  and  for  anti- 
slavery  gatherings,  was  an  important  occasion  for  those  in- 
terested in  the  movement  for  bringing  the  church  to  the 
people  and  drawing  them  in  to  hear  the  gospel.  The  chapel 
was  dedicated  Monday,  April  23,  1832,  at  half-past  five  in 
the  morning,  to  allow  business  men  and  their  employees  to 
be  present.  From  1,000  to  2,000  attended  the  solemn  ser- 
vices at  that  early  hour.  The  second  Sunday  following,  Mr. 
Finney  preached  morning  and  evening,  administering  the 
Lord's  Supper  in  the  afternoon,  the  First  Free  Church  join- 
ing in  the  ordinance.    Vast  congregations  attended  during  all 

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Dr.   Finney's  Work  in  New  York 

the  exercises,  and  the  speaker's  voice — so  the  newspaper  report 
read — was  distinctly  heard  in  all  parts  of  the  house. 

At  once  revival  work  began,  continuing  through  the  spring 
and  summer;  but  that  was  the  trying  cholera  year,  and  the 
panic  in  New  York  sent  vast  crowds  into  the  country,  from 
70,000  to  100,000  people  leaving  the  city.  Mr.  Finney  re- 
mained at  his  post,  not  wishing  to  leave  while  the  mortality 
was  so  great,  especially  in  the  vicinity  of  his  own  house,  where 
he  once  counted  five  hearses  drawn  up  at  the  same  time  at 
different  doors  within  sight.  After  a  few  weeks'  rest,  late 
in  the  summer,  he  returned  for  his  installation  on  the  even- 
ing of  October  5th ;  but  during  the  services  he  was  taken  ill. 
His  next  door  neighbor,  who  was  also  seized  with  the  cholera 
about  the  same  time,  died  that  night,  but  in  three  weeks  Mr. 
Finney  was  well  on  the  road  to  recovery,  and,  toward  spring, 
he  resumed  his  church  work.  For  twenty  evenings  in  succes- 
sion he  preached,  in  addition  to  his  Sunday  services,  and  as 
a  result  of  this  faithful  seed-sowing,  five  hundred  converts 
were  numbered,  and  a  new  colony  set  off,  organized,  Decem- 
ber 6th,  as  the  Third  Free  Presbyterian  Church. 

Mr.  Finney  himself  describes  the  workers  who  were  united 
in  the  Free  Church  of  which  he  was  pastor.  Many  of  them 
were,  later,  gathered  into  the  first  organization  of  the  Broad- 
way Tabernacle.    He  says  of  them: 

"  The  Church  were  a  working,  praying  people.  They  were  thor- 
oughly united,  were  well  trained  in  regard  to  labors  for  the  conversion 
of  sinners,  and  were  a  most  devoted  and  efficient  church  of  Christ. 
They  would  go  out  into  the  highways  and  hedges,  and  bring  people  to 
hear  preaching,  whenever  they  were  called  upon  to  do  so.  Both  men 
and  women  would  undertake  this  work.  When  we  wished  to  give 
notice  of  any  extra  meetings,  little  slips  of  paper,  on  which  was  printed 
an  invitation  to  attend  the  services,  would  be  carried  from  house  to 
house,  in  every  direction,  by  the  members  of  the  church;  especially  in 
that  part  of  the  city  in  which  Chatham  Street  Chapel,  as  we  called  it, 
was  located.  .  .  .  Our  ladies  were  not  afraid  to  go  and  gather  in  all 
classes  from  the  neighborhood  round  about.  .  .  .  There  were  three 
rooms,  connected  with  the  front  part  of  the  theatre,  long,  large  rooms, 
which  were  fitted  up  for  prayer  meetings  and  for  a  lecture  room.  .  . 
I  instructed  my  church  members  to  scatter  themselves  over  the  whole 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

house,  and  to  keep  their  eyes  open  in  regard  to  any  that  were  seriously 
affected  under  preaching,  for  conversation  and  prayer.  They  were  true 
to  their  teaching  and  were  on  the  lookout  at  every  meeting  to  see  with 
whom  the  word  of  God  was  taking  effect;  and  they  had  faith  enough 
to  dismiss  their  fears  and  to  speak  to  any  whom  they  saw  to  be  affected 
by  the  Word.  In  this  way  the  conversion  of  a  great  many  souls  was 
secured.  They  would  invite  them  into  those  rooms,  and  there  we  could 
converse  and  pray  with  them,  and  thus  gather  up  the  results  of  every 
sermon.  ...  A  more  harmonious,  prayerful,  and  efficient  people  I 
never  knew  than  were  the  members  of  those  free  churches.  They  were 
not  among  the  rich,  although  there  were  several  men  of  property  be- 
longing to  them.  In  general  they  were  gathered  from  the  middle  and 
lower  classes  of  the  people.  This  was  what  we  aimed  to  accomplish, 
to  preach  the  Gospel  especially  to  the  poor."  * 

In  its  issue  of  November  2,  1833,  The  Evangelist  stated  in 
defending  the  "  Free  Church  "  system  that  the  original  com- 
pany of  four  families  had  been  enlarged  into  three  congrega- 
tions who  had  gathered  already  six  hundred  converts  and  put 
forward  thirty  of  their  young  men  to  study  for  the  ministry. 

In  the  autumn  of  1834  Rev.  Joel  Parker,  after  having 
preached  for  some  months  in  New  Orleans,  was  dismissed 
from  the  First  Free  Presbyterian  Church  to  accept  a  call  to 
that  city,  where  $40,000  had  been  subscribed  to  build  a  church 
if  he  would  consent  to  occupy  its  pulpit.  His  farewell  sermon 
was  preached  before  an  immense  audience  in  Chatham  Street 
Chapel. 

During  the  year  1834  Mr.  Finney  took  a  voyage  for  his 
health  to  the  Mediterranean,  and  was  absent  until  late  autumn. 
While  abroad,  the  mob  riots  of  1834  occurred  in  which  Aboli- 
tion leaders  and  clergymen  of  anti-slavery  sentiment  were 
attacked,  their  houses  beaten  in,  or  otherwise  injured,  while 
many  colored  citizens  had  not  only  their  houses  wrecked,  but 
a  school  and  seven  of  their  houses  of  worship  destroyed  or 
badly  injured.  Mr.  Finney's  anti-slavery  sentiments  were  pro- 
nounced and  well  known,  although  before  leaving  home  he 
had  counselled  his  zealous  friend  and  supporter,  Rev.  Joshua 
Leavitt,  editor  of  The  Evangelist,  to  hasten  slowly  along  that 
good  way.    On  Mr.  Finney's  return,  at  the  communion  service 

*  Memoirs  of  Charles  G.  Finney,  pp.  321-324. 
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Dr.  Finney's  Work  in  New  York 

at  the  chapel,  November  3d,  he  invited  to  the  communion  pro- 
fessing Christians,  but  forbade  slave-holders,  not  recognizing 
as  Christians  those  who  held  men  in  slavery,  and  who  claimed 
a  right  of  property  in  the  bodies  and  souls  of  their  fellow- 
men.  A  slave-holder  present  said :  "  The  preacher  was  rather 
hard  upon  me,  but  he  was  right."  Mr.  Finney  said  that  he 
would  not  undertake  to  say  all  slave-holders  were  not  Chris- 
tians, but,  for  one,  he  could  not  recognize  men  as  such  who 
trafficked  in  the  bodies  and  souls  of  men.*  Thus  he  placed 
himself  squarely  with  the  unpopular  altruistic  party. 

Owing  to  Mr.  Leavitt's  enthusiastic  advocacy  of  anti-slavery 
sentiments,  subscribers  fell  off  so  rapidly  from  his  paper  that 
he  appealed  to  Mr.  Finney  for  aid,  and,  December  5th,  the 
preacher  began  that  famous  series  of  "  Lectures  on  Revivals," 
which,  when  issued  in  a  volume,  had  an  enormous  sale  in 
both  Europe  and  America.  This  series  continued  for  many 
Friday  evenings.  Mr.  Leavitt  made  copious  notes  and  pre- 
pared careful  abstracts  of  these  lectures  which  he  published, 
and  their  popularity  brought  up  his  subscription  list  once  more. 

In  February,  1835,  Mr.  Finney  was  appointed  professor 
of  theology  in  the  new  Collegiate  Institute  of  Oberlin,  which 
was  about  to  establish  a  theological  department.  He  accepted 
the  appointment  with  the  understanding  that  he  was  to  con- 
tinue his  preaching  services  in  New  York  during  the  winter 
months. 

The  following  winter,  1835  and  1836,  he  was  back  again 
at  Chatham  Street  Chapel,  and  he  began  another  course  of 
Friday  evening  lectures  December  18th,  which  Mr.  Leavitt 
also  reported.  But  Mr.  Finney  had  been  growing  more  and 
more  out  of  touch  with  the  discipline  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  and  with  the  Old  School  doctrines.  The  Princeton 
Biblical  Repertory  called  upon  him  vehemently  to  leave  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  when  a  Sixth  Free  Church  was 
organized  March  13,  1836,  its  constitution  was  largely 
Congregational  (though  the  deacons  were  made  trustees  of 
the  property,  and  the  board,   for  the  sake  of  being  better 

*  The  Evangelist,  November  8,  1834. 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

comprehended  by  the  public,  was  denominated  a  session), 
and  Mr.  Finney  accompanied  that  portion  of  his  church 
that  organized  it  as  their  pastor.  The  Rev.  Charles  Fitch, 
pastor  of  the  Free  Church  of  Hartford,  preached  on  that  occa- 
sion and  read  the  names  of  those  who  had  obtained  letters 
of  dismission  to  constitute  the  new  church,  one  hundred  and 
eighteen  in  number.  He  also  read  the  declaration  of  Prin- 
ciples, Rules,  Confession  of  Faith,  and  Covenant  *  which  had 
been  agreed  on,  to  which  they  gave  their  public  assent,  and 
then  pronounced  them  a  church,  the  Broadway  Tabernacle 
Church.    A  prayer  and  anthem  closed  the  services. 

The  Tabernacle  from  which  the  church  took  its  name  was 
situated  on  the  east  side  of  Broadway,  between  Worth,  now 
known  as  Anthony  Street,  and  Catharine  Lane.    The  building, 
modified  and  enlarged,  is  now  occupied  by  the  firm  of  Messrs. 
James  H.  Dunham  &  Co.     It  was  one  hundred  feet  square, 
one  hundred  feet  back  from  Broadway.    Its  entrance  on  Broad- 
way, about  twenty-five  feet  wide,  in  the  middle  of  the  block, 
was  secured  by  a  lease  of  two  lots  in  front  of  the  edifice,  and 
the  rent  of  the  double  building  over  these  nearly  met  the  ex- 
pense.    This  entrance,  extending  east  one  hundred  feet  to  the 
small  yard  in  front  of  the  building,  when  not  in  use,  was  closed 
with  iron  gates  swinging  in  from  the  street.    The  Tabernacle 
stood  on  four  lots  of  ground,  one  of  which  was  purchased,  the 
others  hired  from  the  estate  of  Peter  Lorillard.    It  would  seat 
comfortably  about  2,500  persons ;  thus  a  great  audience-room 
was  secured  in  the  heart  of  the  city,  yet  removed  from  the 
noise  of  traffic  and  travel.    The  whole  cost  of  land  purchased 
and  building,  with  entrance,  was  $66,500.    The  men  who  con- 
tributed the  most  for  its  erection  were  Mr.  William  Green,  Jr., 
who  paid  $5,000  and  lent  $25,000;  and  Mr.  Isaac  M.  Dimond, 
who  contributed  the  same  sum  and  lent  $20,000,  which  was 
never  refunded.    Other  subscriptions  amounted  to  $6,000;  and 
$5,500  was  secured  by  bond  and  mortgage.    The  builder  was 
Mr.  Joseph  Ditto.     Upon  Mr.  Dimond  and  Mr.  Finney  de- 
volved almost  the  whole  charge  of  superintending  the  contracts 
*  See  Appendix  B. 
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Dr.   Finney's  Work  in  New  York 

and  the  building.  Of  the  two  pictures  extant  of  the  interior 
of  this  great  audience-room,  that  in  the  Memoir  of  David  Hale 
is  probably  the  earlier. 

The  acoustic  properties  of  this  building  were  unusually 
good.  The  seats  were  arranged  in  a  circular  fashion  and  wide 
galleries  with  eight  tiers  of  seats  extended  the  entire  circuit. 
The  orchestra  and  choir  occupied  the  space  back  of  the  pul- 
pit, a  stairway  running  up  from  the  floor  to  the  gallery  in 
which  the  choir  was  seated,  and,  under  the  stairway,  to  the 
left,  a  mysterious  passageway  led  to  the  pastor's  study,  Bible 
and  infant  class-rooms,  and  other  departments.  The  offici- 
ating clergyman  usually  came  from  the  pastor's  study  by  a 
nearer  way  on  the  right  of  the  pulpit. 

This  building,  begun  in  May,  1835,  and  finished  April,  1836, 
was  largely  planned  by  Mr.  Finney.    He  says: 

"  The  men  that  built  the  Tabernacle  in  Broadway,  and  the  leading 
members  who  formed  the  church  there,  built  it  with  the  understanding 
that  I  should  be  its  pastor,  and  they  formed  a  Congregational  Church. 
I  then  took  my  dismission  from  the  presbytery  and  became  pastor  of 
that  Congregational  Church.  .  .  .  The  plan  of  the  interior  of  the 
house  was  my  own.  I  had  observed  the  defects  of  churches  in  regard 
to  sound;  and  was  sure  that  I  could  easily  speak  to  a  much  larger 
congregation  than  any  house  would  hold,  that  I  had  ever  seen.  An 
architect  was  consulted,  and  I  gave  him  my  plan.  But  he  objected  to 
it  that  it  would  not  appear  well  and  feared  that  it  would  injure  his 
reputation  to  build  a  church  with  such  an  interior  as  that.  I  told  him 
that,  if  he  would  not  build  it  on  that  plan,  he  was  not  the  man  to 
superintend  its  construction  at  all.  It  was  finally  built  in  accordance 
with  my  ideas,  and  it  was  a  most  commodious  and  comfortable  place 
to  speak  in.    .    .    . 

"  When  the  Tabernacle  was  in  the  process  of  completion,  its  walls  be- 
ing up  and  the  roof  on,  a  story  was  set  in  circulation  that  it  was  going 
to  be  an  amalgamation  church  in  which  colored  and  white  people  were 
to  be  compelled  to  sit  promiscuously  over  the  house.  Such  was  the 
state  of  the  public  mind  in  New  York  at  that  time  that  this  report 
created  a  great  excitement  and  somebody  set  the  building  on  fire.  The 
firemen  were  in  such  a  state  of  mind  that  they  refused  to  put  it  out, 
and  left  the  interior  and  roof  to  be  consumed.  However,  the  gentlemen 
who  had  undertaken  to  build  it  went  forward  and  completed  it.     .     .    . 

"  While  in  New  York  I  had  many  applications  from  young  men  to 
take  them  as  students  in  theology.     I,  however,  had  too  much  on  my 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

hands  to  undertake  such  a  work.  But  the  brethren  who  built  the 
Tabernacle  had  this  in  view,  and  prepared  a  room  under  the  choir 
which  we  expected  to  use  for  prayer-meetings  but  more  especially  for  a 
theological  lecture  room.  The  number  of  applications  had  been  so 
large  that  I  had  made  up  my  mind  to  deliver  a  course  of  theological 
lectures  in  that  room  each  year  and  let  such  students  as  chose  attend 
them  gratuitously."  * 

But  all  these  fine  schemes  were  never  carried  out,  and  Mr. 
Finney  only  occupied  the  pulpit  of  the  big  Tabernacle  he  had 
planned  during  the  following  winter,  that  of  1836  and  1837. 
The  double  care  was  too  great  a  strain  upon  his  health ;  and 
the  demands  of  Oberlin  upon  his  time  and  strength  grew  more 
importunate.  His  naive  confession,  "  I  felt  a  great  difficulty 
in  giving  up  that  admirable  place  for  preaching  the  Gospel, 
where  such  crowds  were  gathered  within  sound  of  my  voice,"  f 
can  well  be  believed,  for  Mr.  Finney,  above  all  things  else,  was 
a  preacher.  During  that  last  winter  his  religious  experiences 
led  him  to  adopt  those  views  of  Christian  perfection  which 
later,  taken  in  conjunction  with  its  New  School  teachings  and 
its  radical  anti-slavery  principles,  made  Oberlin  for  many  years 
obnoxious  to  very  many  orthodox  clergymen  and  ecclesiastical 
bodies.  He  was  counted  a  fanatic  by  his  foes,  a  religious  en- 
thusiast by  his  friends;  but  his  revival  sermons  continued  to 
be  blessed  to  multitudes.  How  these  sermons  were  prepared 
he  tells  as  follows : 

"  When  I  first  began  to  preach  and  for  some  twelve  years  of  my 
earliest  ministry  I  wrote  not  a  word ;  and  was  most  commonly  obliged 
to  preach  without  any  preparation  whatever,  except  what  I  got  in 
prayer.  ...  I  almost  always  got  my  subjects  on  my  knees  in 
prayer,  and  it  has  been  a  common  experience  with  me  upon  receiving  a 
subject  from  the  Holy  Spirit  to  have  it  make  so  strong  an  impression  on 
my  mind  as  to  make  me  tremble  so  that  I  could  with  difficulty  write. 
When  subjects  are  thus  given  me  that  seem  to  go  through  me,  body 
and  soul,  I  can  in  a  few  moments  make  up  a  skeleton  that  shall  enable 
me  to  retain  the  view  presented  by  the  Spirit,  and  I  find  that  such 
sermons  always  tell  with  great  power  upon  the  people."  t 

*  Memoirs  of  Rev.  Charles  G.  Finney,  pp.  325,  326,  32S,  332. 
f  Ibid.,  p.  334.  X  Ibid.,  pp.  95,  96- 

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In  the  account  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Porter  of  Farmington  gave 
of  the  first  revival  in  that  place,  which  began  in  1793  under 
the  preaching  of  young  Dr.  Griffin,  he  says  of  his  sermons : 

"  There  were  certain  leading  topics  such  as  the  radical  defect  of  the 
best  doings  of  the  impenitent,  the  duty  of  immediate  repentance,  the 
freeness  of  evangelical  offers,  and  the  natural  ability  of  men  to  accept 
them,  and  the  consistency  of  all  these  with  the  purposes  of  God,  the 
election  of  the  heirs  of  life  and  the  grace  of  God  in  their  regeneration 
which  he  presented  with  a  clearness  and  a  force  that  were  new.  There 
was  also  a  simplicity,  a  vividness,  and  an  affection  in  his  manner  which 
gave  the  truth  great  access  to  the  mind." 

In  quoting  this  extract,  Dr.  Joshua  Leavitt,  who  was  a 
faithful  attendant  upon  Dr.  Finney's  preaching  and  reported 
his  sermons  for  two  winters,  adds  this  simple  comment,  "  the 
very  portrait  of  Finney."  * 

*The  Evangelist,  May  2,  1835. 


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CHAPTER  III. 
THE  FOUNDING  OF  THE  CHURCH. 

The  second  quarter  of  the  nineteenth  century  was  a  period 
of  intense  moral  activity.  With  increasing  numbers  of  people 
the  question  was  not  so  much,  Is  this  pleasant  or  popular  or 
established  custom?  but,  Is  it  right?  A  deeper  sense  of  per- 
sonal responsibility  seemed  to  prevail,  and  where  any  good, 
large  or  small,  needed  to  be  done,  more  people  were  ready  to 
do  it,  and  to  do  it  at  once.  Cities  were  seething  with  new 
ideas,  new  principles,  and  the  promulgators  of  any  doctrine 
that  disturbed  the  old  order  of  things  assumed,  without  ap- 
parent hesitancy,  the  attitude  of  defenders  of  their  faith. 

The  seven  Free  Churches  of  New  York  City  were  but  a  small 
proportion  of  the  many  new  church  enterprises  that  sprang 
up  during  the  thirties.  Few  of  them  survived  the  disastrous 
consequences  of  the  great  fire  of  1835  and  the  financial  crash 
of  1837,  but  their  members,  while  they  held  together,  worked 
strenuously  for  others,  and  much  good  was  accomplished. 
The  variety  of  topics  that  interested  active  Christian  men  and 
women  in  those  days  is  surprising.  Naturally,  anti-slavery 
and  temperance  were  test  questions.  Society  frowned  upon 
their  advocates  and  loaded  them  with  obloquy ;  but  these  advo- 
cates were  nearly  all,  at  the  outset,  active  and  avowed  Chris- 
tian men  and  women.  The  New  York  City  Anti-Slavery  So- 
ciety was  organized  in  Chatham  Street  Chapel,  October,  1833, 
with  a  noble  list  of  officers,  while  a  mob  battered  at  the  doors 
before  they  were  out  of  the  building.  A  Young  Men's  Anti- 
Slavery  Society  was  organized  in  Dr.  Lansing's  church,  May, 
1834,  and  the  Ladies'  New  York  City  Anti-Slavery  Society, 
in  the  same  church,  with  a  hundred  and  sixty  signatures  to 
the  constitution  less  than  a  year  later ;   the  venerable  Dr.  Em- 

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The  Founding  of  the  Church 

mons  was  called  to  the  chair  at  the  second  anniversary  of  the 
American  Anti-Slavery  Society  held  in  one  of  the  Free 
Churches  in  1835,  and  the  Rev.  Baron  Stow  offered  prayer; 
while,  in  the  Rev.  Mr.  Ludlow's  church,  ladies  held  a  series 
of  meetings  to  hear  the  famous  Grimke  sisters  give  "  Exposi- 
tions of  the  System  of  Southern  Slavery."  The  second  an- 
niversary of  the  emancipation  of  West  Indian  slaves  was  cele- 
brated on  August  1,  1837,  by  intelligent  colored  citizens  in 
Broadway  Tabernacle,  the  house  being  "  very  well  filled,"  and 
"  Solemn  Religious  Services  "  were  held  by  the  American  Anti- 
Slavery  Society  over  the  death  of  Rev.  E.  P.  Love  joy,  No- 
vember, 1837,  in  the  same  place.  Hard  names,  however,  were 
bandied  about  when  the  Chatham  Street  Chapel  or  Broadway 
Tabernacle  was  spoken  of  by  pro-slavery  advocates.  During 
the  riots  of  1833,  when  negroes  had  been  attacked  in  the  chapel, 
the  Courier  and  Enquirer  of  July  8th  announced : 

"  Another  of  those  disgraceful  negro  outrages,  &c.,  occurred  last  night 
at  that  common  focus  of  pollution,  Chatham  Street  Chapel." 

Temperance  advocates  fared  not  much  better.  When  Mr. 
Arthur  Tappan  advertised  for  communion  use  a  pure  juice  of 
the  grape  without  any  added  alcoholic  liquor  the  newspapers 
uttered  a  howl  of  derision.  Dr.  George  B.  Cheever  was  cow- 
hided,  and  tried  for  libel  in  a  Massachusetts  court,  and  suffered 
thirty  days'  imprisonment  in  the  common  jail  because  of  his 
little  temperance  skit,  "Enquire  at  Deacon  Giles'  Distillery." 
Yet  the  temperance  leaven  was  so  working  that  in  1834 
New  York  State  was  accredited  with  2,500  temperance  socie- 
ties, large  and  small,  and  temperance  societies  for  young  men 
flourished  in  the  churches,  while  there  was  a  great  cold-water 
army  of  children  in  the  Sunday-schools. 

Among  the  various  organizations  whose  meetings  were  no- 
ticed by  the  religious  press  were  a  Manual  Labor  School  So- 
ciety that  had  many  enthusiastic  supporters  and  the  eloquent 
young  Theodore  D.  Weld  as  its  agent;  a  New  York  Society 
for  the  Improvement  of  Common  Schools;  a  Young  Ladies' 
Education  Society  of  the  Free  Churches  of  New  York;    an 

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Anti-Tobacco  Society;  the  American  Seventh  Commandment 
Society,  and  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  to  the  Seventh  Command- 
ment Society;  the  Ladies'  Moral  Reform  Society;  the  Mag- 
dalen Society;  New  York  Female  Bethel  Union,  Female 
Branch  of  the  New  York  City  Tract  Society,  Maternal  Asso- 
ciations in  many  churches,  and  the  Oberlin  Female  Professor- 
ship Association,  to  support  the  Principal  of  the  woman's  de- 
partment and  the  women  teachers.  These  and  many  more 
benevolent  organizations  were  keeping  the  thoughts  and  hands 
of  women,  as  well  as  men,  busy,  and  their  hearts  warm,  while 
Drs.  Graham  and  Mussey  were  directing  them  to  adopt  a  vege- 
table diet  or  to  use  unbolted  flour,  anti-slavery  advocates  were 
urging  them  to  reject  all  products  of  slave  labor,  to  drink  their 
tea  and  coffee  without  sugar,  or  to  use  beet  sugar;  and  Dr. 
Finney  would  have  them  dispense  with  coffee  and  tea  altogether. 
These  various  organizations,  and  the  great  national  benevolent 
societies  for  the  advance  of  education  and  home  and  foreign 
missions,  Bible,  and  tract  societies,  held  their  anniversaries 
in  New  York,  and  Broadway  Tabernacle  became  famous,  as 
did  Chatham  Street  Chapel  before  it,  for  its  great  mass  meet- 
ings, for  which  purpose  these  houses  were  rented  to  them. 

After  Mr.  Finney's  departure  in  the  spring  of  1837,  the  Rev. 
George  Duffield  was  engaged  to  act  as  pastor  of  the  Tabernacle 
Church,  though  he  was  not  installed.  During  this  year  Mr. 
David  Hale,  nephew  of  the  patriot  Nathan  Hale  and  cousin  of 
Mr.  Nathan  Hale  of  the  Boston  Advertiser,  who  had  been  look- 
ing for  a  church  in  the  city  where  he  could  find  congenial 
church  work  and  companionship,  began  attending  its  services. 
Mr.  Hale  and  Gerard  Hallock,  Esq.,  were,  at  that  time,  joint 
proprietors  and  editors  of  the  Journal  of  Commerce,  founded, 
about  ten  years  before,  as  a  Christian  daily  commercial  news- 
paper. Mr.  Hale  was  a  man  of  strong  will,  able  mind,  posi- 
tive views,  upright  character,  and  a  stanch  upholder  of  Con- 
gregational church  polity.  Though  his  journal  had  been 
founded  by  Mr.  Arthur  Tappan,  and  had  come  into  his  hands 
through  Mr.  Lewis  Tappan,  he  was  not  in  sympathy  with  these 
brothers  in  their  Abolition  sentiments.    Mr.  Lewis  Tappan  was 

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at  this  time  a  fellow  member  of  the  Tabernacle  Church,  though 
Mr.  Green  and  Mr.  Dimond,  its  first  generous  helpers,  had 
both  left  it. 

With  no  regular  income,  a  free  pew  system,  dependent  upon 
Sunday  collections,  and  burdened  with  mortgages  upon  their 
building,  the  church  sank  deeper  and  deeper  into  debt.  The 
proposition  was  made  that  they  invite  the  First  Free  Presby- 
terian Church,  worshipping  in  Dey  Street,  to  give  up  their 
house  of  worship  and  unite  forces  with  the  Tabernacle.  At 
first  Mr.  Hale  opposed  this  plan,  fearing  it  would  involve  a 
sacrifice  of  the  church's  Congregational  independence.  But 
the  burden  became  insupportable,  and  messages  came  from 
their  creditors  that  entrance  to  the  Tabernacle  would  be  closed 
and  gas  shut  off  unless  rents  and  gas  bills  were  paid.  The 
question  of  consolidation  was  considered  once  more,  and  ac- 
tion was  taken  as  follows :  * 

"  A  joint  meeting  of  the  Sessions  and  Trustees  of  the  Tabernacle  and 
Dey  Street  Churches,  was  held  at  the  Tabernacle  on  Friday  evening, 
Feb.  16th,  1838.  Present  from  the  Tabernacle,  Messrs.  Benedict,  Colton, 
Tappan  and  Hutchinson — from  the  Dey  street  Church,  Messrs.  Bliss, 
Faxon,  Colt,  Clover,  Joy  and  Hurd.  Mr.  Clover  was  called  to  the 
chair  and  J.  F.  Joy  appointed  Secretary.     Meeting  opened  with  prayer. 

"  Dr.  Bliss  from  the  Committee  appointed  at  the  last  meeting  to  draw 
up  a  plan  of  union,  reported  verbally  that  the  Committee  had  not  had 
an  interview,  and  consequently  had  not  agreed  upon  any  plan,  and 
moved  that  they  be  discharged  from  the  further  consideration  of  the 
subject,  which  was  unanimously  carried. 

"  Mr.  Benedict  presented  the  proceedings  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle 
Church  and  Congregation,  being  a  statement  of  the  terms  on  which 
they  would  consent  to  the  proposed  union,  which,  on  motion,  was 
considered  by  sections  and  unanimously  approved,  with  the  exception 
of  the  second,  third,  and  fifth,  which  were  amended.  The  proposals, 
thus  amended,  were  unanimously  approved  and  are  as  follows. 

"  1st.  Each  church  to  pay  its  debt  for  current  expenses  in  full  to  1st 
March. 

"  2d.  Mr.  Dimond  to  transfer  his  mortgage  from  the  Tabernacle  to 
the  first  Church,  take  a  second  mortgage  on  that  property — be  put  in 
full  possession  and  to  relinquish  all  claim  on  the  Tabernacle  Church 
or  its  members,  it  being  understood  that  he  is,  in  addition  to  the  above, 

*  David  Hale,  Facts  and  Reasonings  on  Church  Government. 

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to  pay  Mr.  Baker  $2500,  for  his  claim  of  $4000,  against  the  Dey  street 
Church;  and  that,  for  the  balance  of  his  claim  ($1500),  Mr.  Baker  is  to 
receive  a  mortgage  upon  the  Tabernacle. 

"  3d.  The  churches  to  be  united  at  the  Tabernacle  under  the  pastoral 
charge  of  Messrs.  Duffield  and  Helffenstein,*  Mr.  Duffield  to  receive 
his  present  salary,  and  Mr.  Helffenstein's  to  be  increased  to  $1700. 

"  4th.  The  two  churches  to  be  connected  with  the  Third  Presbytery  of 
New  York,t  it  being  understood  that  such  principles  of  the  Congrega- 
tional order  shall  be  engrafted  as  shall  be  approved  by  the  United 
Churches. 

"  5th.  If  the  two  churches,  previous  to  the  first  of  March  shall  sub- 
scribe a  sufficient  sum  in  weekly  or  monthly  payments  to  defray  the 
expense  of  the  United  Church,  and  shall  pay  one  month  of  the  same 
in  advance,  then  the  seats  in  said  Church  shall  remain  free;  but  in 
case  they  fail  to  do  this,  the  seats  are  to  be  sold  or  leased  by  direction 
of  the  Church — and  the  proportion  of  said  expense  shall  be  for  the 
Dey  street  Church  $2400,  and  the  Tabernacle  the  balance. 

•'  On  motion  adjourned. 

"  (Signed)  J.   F.  Joy,    Secretary." 

The  two  churches  were  united  at  the  Tabernacle  on  April 
13,  1838,  under  the  ministry  of  Messrs.  Duffield  and  Helffen- 
stein. In  the  course  of  the  following  summer,  Mr.  Helffenstein 
having  in  contemplation  the  charge  of  a  congregation  in  Penn- 
sylvania, some  of  the  elders  and  members  of  the  church,  think- 
ing it  might  be  for  the  interest  of  the  church  to  have  Mr.  Duf- 
field also  retire  if  they  could  unite  the  church  in  giving  a  call 
to  the  former  pastor  of  the  Dey  Street  church,  Rev.  Joel  Parker, 
took  measures  to  induce  both  pastors  to  resign  at  the  same 
time.  Mr.  Duffield  expressed  a  willingness  to  do  so,  but 
thought  it  his  duty  to  refer  the  matter  to  the  church. 

Two  church  meetings  were  held,  Mr.  Tappan  presiding ;  at 
the  second,  letters  were  read  from  both  pastors,  Mr.  Helffen- 
stein giving  an  absolute  and  Mr.  Duffield  a  qualified  resig- 
nation. Both  were  accepted  at  once.  Mr.  Tappan  thought 
the  action  precipitate  in  Mr.  Duffield's  case,  and  that  he  had 
been  crowded  into  resigning  by  those  members  of  the  church 
and  of  the  Session  who  had  officiously  interviewed  both  pas- 

*  Mr.  Duffield  acting  pastor  of  the  Tabernacle,  Mr.  Helffenstein  pastor  of 
the  Dey  Street  Church. 

f  Italics  as  used  by  Mr.  Hale. 

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tors  in  order  to  make  way  for  Mr.  Parker,  then  on  a  visit 
to  New  York.  Mr.  Tappan's  attitude  gave  offence  to  these 
brethren,  and  in  the  two  church  meetings  that  followed  a 
clergyman  from  the  presbytery  was  brought  in  to  preside,  and, 
according  to  the  arrangement  of  the  ruling  elders,  Mr.  Parker 
was  nominated. 

Mr.  Tappan  opposed  the  nomination  chiefly  because  of  Mr. 
Parker's  change  of  attitude  toward  slavery  and  Sabbath  ob- 
servance. When  in  the  First  Free  Church  Mr.  Parker  with 
his  session  had  disciplined  two  brethren  of  his  church  for 
journeying  on  Sunday;  since  then  Mr.  Parker  had  drawn  on 
himself  rebukes  at  Oberlin  for  Sunday  travel.  Also,  while  in 
New  York,  he  had  signed  a  declaration  of  sentiments  against 
Colonization  and  in  favor  of  immediate  emancipation;  but 
after  going  to  New  Orleans  he  had,  at  Alton,  Mo.,  just  be- 
fore the  murder  of  Lovejoy,  encouraged  Mr.  Lovejoy's  oppo- 
nents by  taking  active  part  in  a  Colonization  meeting,  and  by 
ridiculing  the  doctrine  of  immediate  emancipation.  He  had 
said,  besides,  that  it  was  unchristian  to  go  into  a  community 
to  excite  it,  and  that  he  should  refrain  from  speaking  upon 
any  subject  calculated  to  disturb  or  agitate  a  people.  Mr. 
Tappan  declared  that  he  did  not  wish  to  have  his  children 
brought  up  under  a  minister  who,  instead  of  preaching  the 
law  of  God  in  his  pulpit  with  fearlessness,  was  like  a  vane 
on  the  top  of  a  sanctuary  to  indicate  which  way  the  wind  blew. 

In  spite  of  the  minority  opposition,  a  call  was  given  and 
Mr.  Parker  became  pastor  of  the  church  in  the  autumn  of 
1838.  Mr.  Tappan,  in  a  private  call  upon  his  new  pastor, 
assured  him  that  he  should  organize  no  opposition  against  him, 
he  should  attend  the  meetings  of  the  church,  and  wish  him 
success  in  his  ministry,  but  added :  "  I  shall  hold  up  the  sub- 
ject of  slavery  perpetually  in  the  confident  belief  that  the 
church  is  in  a  great  error,  but  that  it  will  eventually  agree 
with  me." 

Mr.  Parker  replied,  "  I  shall  do  all  I  can  to  limit  your 
influence  in  the  church,  because  I  think  it  a  bad  influence." 

Mr.  Tappan  responded,  "  I  shall  try  to  limit  what  I  see 

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wrong  in  you,  but  not  obstruct  any  of  your  efforts  to  do 
good." 

Under  the  old  regime  the  church  had  frankly,  avowedly 
adopted  anti-slavery  and  total  abstinence  principles  in  the  fol- 
lowing resolutions: 

"  Resolved,  That  the  using,  holding,  or  trading  in  men  as  slaves  is  a 
sin  in  the  sight  of  God,  a  great  wrong  to  its  subjects,  and  a  great  moral 
and  political  evil,  inconsistent  with  a  Christian  profession,  and  that 
this  church  will  admit  no  person  to  its  communion  who  is  known  to  be 
guilty  of  the  same. 

"  Resolved,  That  this  church  will  admit  no  person  to  its  membership 
who  refuses  assent  to  the  Temperance  pledge." 

An  equivalent  statement  was  prefixed  to  Manual  No.  I.  of 
the  church : 

"  This  church  is  established  on  Temperance  and  Anti-Slavery  prin- 
ciples. No  one  is  admitted  who  will  not  promise  never  to  buy,  sell,  or 
hold  a  slave,  nor  any  one  who  will  not  adopt  the  Temperance  pledge." 

Now  the  session  omitted  the  anti-slavery  and  temperance 
resolutions  that  had  long  been  read  at  every  communion  to 
which  candidates  for  admission  to  the  church  were  expected 
to  assent;  and  Mr.  Parker  refused  or  omitted  to  read  notices 
of  anti-slavery  gatherings. 

On  December  15th,  Mr.  Tappan  wrote  to  Mr.  Parker: 

"  A  call  has  been  signed  by  about  thirty  members  of  the  church  for 
a  meeting  of  the  brethren  and  sisters  of  the  church  who  approve  of 
anti-slavery  principles,  to  form  an  anti-slavery  society  in  the  Tabernacle 
Church  and  Congregation.  More  than  twenty  more  are  ready  to  sign 
it.  A  society  will  be  formed.  I  have  not  time  to  explain  to  you  all  the 
objects  intended;  but  as  I  do  not  wish  to  do  anything  in  the  church 
without  giving  you  early  information  of  it,  I  will  observe  that  the 
object  of  the  society  will  be  to  aid  in  promoting  the  abolition  of  slavery 
in  the  United  States,  and  especially  to  purify  the  Church  at  the  North, 
as  well  as  at  the  South,  from  all  its  pollutions  by  appeals  to  the  hearts 
and  consciences  of  men,  by  warning,  entreaty,  and  earnest  prayer  and 
the  application  of  the  Bible  doctrine  of  immediate  repentance  to  the 
sin  of  slavery,  etc.,  etc." 

After  seventy-five  persons  had  signed  this  call,  the  pastor 
(Sunday,    December    16th)    requested    the    members    of    the 

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church  to  remain  after  the  morning  service  and  read  a  paper 
which,  he  said,  originated  with  the  session  and  had  been 
adopted  by  them,  disapproving  of  the  formation  of  the  pro- 
posed society.  Mr.  Tappan  said,  in  response,  that  the  measure 
was  a  peaceful  and  Christian  one,  and  that,  in  exercise  of  their 
Christian  liberty,  the  signers  would  feel  it  their  duty  to  pro- 
ceed and  form  the  society. 

The  meeting  was  held  in  the  lecture-room,  Friday,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1838,  under  difficulties.  The  use  of  the  room  had  been 
granted  by  the  proper  authorities,  but  when  the  hour  of  meet- 
ing came  the  room  was  found  locked.  When  it  was  at  length 
opened  by  recognized  authority  and  the  meeting  organized, 
they  were  interrupted  and  ordered  from  the  room.  In  the 
"  Proceedings  "  of  this  meeting,  published  soon  afterward,  we 
read: 

"  It  seems  somewhat  extraordinary  that  a  hundred  members  of  a 
church,  including  one  elder,  four  or  five  deacons,  and  two  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  one  of  them  being  the  chairman,  should  be 
denied  the  use  of  their  own  Lecture-room,  and  when  it  was  not  wanted 
for  any  other  purpose."  * 

The  constitution  was  adopted  at  this  meeting,  more  than 
eighty  members  of  the  church  signing  it  or  authorizing  their 
names  to  be  put  to  it;  only  members  of  the  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle Church,  or  professors  of  religion  belonging  to  the  con- 
gregation or  to  its  Sunday-schools  or  Bible  classes,  being 
eligible  for  membership.  The  officers  were  elected  and  an 
address  to  the  church  read  and  approved. 

Two  days  earlier,  however,  Mr.  Tappan  had  been  cited  to 
appear  before  the  session  of  the  church  on  Tuesday  evening, 
January  8,  1839,  to  answer  to  the  charge  of  disorderly  and  un- 
christian conduct.  It  was  naturally  supposed  that  the  animus 
of  this  was  opposition  to  anti-slavery  principles,  but  when  the 
indictment  was  framed,  it  was  found  to  be  based  on  the  accu- 
sations brought  by  Mr.  Tappan  against  Mr.  Parker  at  the 
church  meeting  in  the  September  previous,  when  the  nomina- 

*  Proceedings  of  a  meeting  to  form  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Anti-Slavery 
Society,  etc.    New  York,  1838. 

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tion  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Parker  for  the  pastorate  was  under  dis- 
cussion.   The  charge  against  him  was  slander. 

Mr.  Tappan  defended  himself  earnestly,  and,  at  times, 
warmly,  when  he  appeared  before  the  session,  and  insisted 
upon  his  right  to  have  a  reporter  with  him  who  should  take 
notes  of  the  trial.  This  right  the  session  denied.  As  Mr. 
Tappan  continued  to  insist  upon  the  presence  of  the  reporter, 
he  was  condemned  by  the  session  for  contumacy,  without  trial 
upon  the  charges  brought,  and  excluded  from  the  communion 
of  the  church  until  he  should  give  evidence  of  repentance. 
Mr.  Tappan  appealed  to  the  presbytery.  Among  his  reasons 
for  the  appeal  were  the  session's  refusal  to  place  important 
parts  of  the  proceedings  upon  record,  and  to  allow  him  to 
have  an  accurate  record  kept.  The  presbytery,  after  six  meet- 
ings, voted,  eleven  to  sustain  Mr.  Tappan's  appeal,  and  four- 
teen against  it.  On  March  4th  the  appellant  addressed  an  ap-- 
peal  to  the  General  Assembly. 

It  was  well  understood  that  the  members  of  the  session 
before  which  Mr.  Tappan  had  been  summoned  were  not  all 
unprejudiced  judges.  One  of  them  had  openly  asserted  that 
something  must  be  done  to  "  put  down "  Mr.  Tappan,  be- 
cause, if  it  were  not  done,  he  would  influence  the  minds  of 
the  church  and  "  get  a  majority."  In  the  General  Assembly 
Rev.  George  Beecher  warmly  defended  Mr.  Tappan's  rights. 
This  was  not  long  after  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher  had  been  tried 
for  heresy.     His  son  said: 

"  When  my  father  was  arraigned  for  heresy — he  knew  that  he  had 
prejudiced  judges;  we  had  evidence  enough  that  they  were  prejudiced 
from  the  statements  that  had  been  made.  I  was  witness  to  the  anxiety 
and  depression  and  sleepless  nights  which  he  suffered.  And  when  the 
trial  came  on,  and  the  reporter,  Mr.  Stansbury,  came  into  the  court, 
my  father  went  up  to  him  and  threw  his  arms  around  his  neck  and 
said  '  Brother,  I  bless  the  Lord  that  you  have  come.'  And  I  know  the 
joy  which  this  occasioned  the  family,  and  I  know  it  was  the  means  of 
saving  his  reputation.  Under  these  circumstances,  if  the  court  had 
ruled  out  the  reporter,  I  know  how  it  would  have  come  home  to  us. 
I  know  how  the  brother  felt.  I  don't  wonder  at  what  he  did.  The 
wonder  is  that  he  did  not  do  worse." 

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The  Assembly's  decision,  made  May  27,  1839,  sustained  Mr. 
Tappan's  appeal.  It  ruled  that  the  act  of  the  session,  exclud- 
ing the  reporter,  was  of  very  questionable  wisdom  as  well  as 
a  dangerous  precedent ;  that  the  session  had  been  too  precipi- 
tate and  absolute,  and,  though  granting  that  the  appellant's 
resolute  opposition  might  be  construed  as  contumacious,  it 
reversed  the  sentence  of  the  session  and  the  decision  of  the 
presbytery. 

It  is  not  because  this  trial  of  Mr.  Lewis  Tappan  is  a  cause 
celebre  that  it  has  been  here  introduced,  but  because  it  was 
this  action  of  the  session  that  brought  Mr.  David  Hale  to 
the  point  of  denouncing  the  injustice  of  the  Presbyterian  dis- 
cipline as  by  them  administered.  Mr.  Tappan  himself  here 
passes  out  of  our  history,  though  it  should  be  recorded  of 
him  that  he  was  actively  concerned  with  the  founding,  in  1846, 
of  one  of  the  noblest  of  our  Congregational  benevolences,  the 
American  Missionary  Association  of  which  he  was  the  first 
treasurer;  he  was  also  one  of  the  Amistad  Committee  of 
Three  appointed  in  1839  and  merged  later  into  the  Union 
Missionary  Society  (1841)  which,  in  turn,  united  with  the 
American  Missionary  Association  upon  its  organization. 

The  story  of  Mr.  Hale's  action  in  the  affairs  of  Mr.  Tap- 
pan  is  finely  told  by  Dr.  Joseph  P.  Thompson  in  his  "  Memoir 
of  David  Hale."  *  Mr.  Hale  was  not  an  Abolitionist ;  he  had 
very  little  sympathy  with  Mr.  Tappan's  anti-slavery  doctrines ; 
nor  was  he  on  very  friendly  terms  with  him;  but  he  was  a 
stout  defender  of  the  democracy  of  the  Church  and  of  liberty 
of  speech;  and  he  felt  the  injustice  of  the  session's  action. 
As  the  articles  of  agreement  between  the  united  churches 
allowed  for  occasional  meetings  of  the  whole  church  for  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Hale  had  a  church  meeting  called,  by  public  notice, 
"  for  the  prayerful  consideration  of  a  case  of  discipline." 
This  meeting  was  held  January  21,  1839.  He  engaged  his 
own  reporter  from  the  Journal  of  Commerce  to  be  present,  in 
order  to  take  notes  of  the  proceedings.  After  some  discus- 
sion the  church  voted  that  the  reporter  might  remain.  Mr. 
*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  pp.  64-91. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Hale  addressed  the  meeting,  giving  a  review  of  the  case  pre- 
paratory to  the  offering  of  a  resolution  that  three  rules  be 
added  to  the  Permanent  Rules  of  the  church.  These  three  rules 
provided  that  any  member  of  the  church  should  have  a  right 
to  appeal  from  a  decision  of  the  session  not  only  by  way  of 
the  presbytery  and  synod  to  the  General  Assembly,  but  to 
the  whole  body  of  his  brethren  of  the  church ;  that  there 
should  be,  at  regular  intervals,  meetings  in  which  any  mem- 
ber of  the  church  could  introduce  such  propositions  as  he 
thought  fit,  and  provision  made  for  the  calling  of  other  such 
meetings  when  deemed  necessary  by  church  members ;  and 
that  the  records  of  the  church  should  be  kept  by  an  appointed 
clerk  and  be  open  to  all. 

There  was  much  discussion  during  the  progress  of  Mr. 
Hale's  address,  and  many  interruptions.  In  view  of  his  propo- 
sitions he  and  his  supporters  were  accused  of  fraud  in  agree- 
ing that  the  church  should  unite  with  the  presbytery  while 
striving,  thus  openly,  to  introduce  Congregational  practices. 
Mr.  Hale  made  a  vigorous  defence,  as  he  had  not  gone  be- 
yond the  stipulation  to  which  the  churches  had  agreed  on 
uniting.  In  the  records  of  the  Third  Presbytery  of  New 
York,  N.  S.,  Vol.  I.,  p.  408,  where  an  account  of  the  union 
of  the  two  churches  is  given,  this  proviso  in  regard  to  such 
principles  of  the  Congregational  order  being  engrafted  as 
should  be  approved  by  the  united  churches  is  not  entered,  and 
brethren  of  the  session  openly  declared  that  they  had  never 
intended  to  comply  with  it.  When  the  question  was  put,  a 
viva  voce  vote  was  taken,  and  the  moderator,  Mr.  Parker, 
declared  the  vote  to  be  in  the  negative,  ignoring  all  calls  for 
a  count,  and  the  meeting  adjourned. 

The  records  of  this  meeting  were  issued  by  Mr.  Hale  as 
a  broadside  under  the  title  "  Facts  and  Reasonings  on  Church 
Government,"  and  widely  distributed.  Some  months  later  a 
second  issue  of  "  Facts  and  Reasonings  "  was  published  by 
him,  giving  some  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Annual  Meeting 
of  the  church,  April  1,  1839,  and  criticising  the  action  the 
session  had  taken  in  the  case  of  Mr.  Tappan  after  the  Gen- 

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DAVID   HALE 
Trustee   1840-1841,    1844— iJ 


The  Founding  of  the  Church 

eral  Assembly  had  sustained  his  appeal.  In  this  sheet  he 
states  that  about  sixty  members  of  the  church  had  left  under 
deep  feelings  of  injury,  that  the  large  number  of  colored  peo- 
ple which  once  filled  a  whole  section  of  the  house  had  with- 
drawn, the  trustees  having  refused  them  leases  of  pews  ex- 
cept on  condition  that  if  they  allowed  a  white  person  to  sit 
with  them  but  once,  the  lease  should  be  forfeited ;  their  chil- 
dren were  disobliged  in  Sabbath-school  and  their  feelings 
ungenerously  wounded ;  the  Sunday-school  had  dwindled,  the 
church  was  running  behind  in  meeting  its  indebtedness  at  the 
rate  of  $3,000  annually,  the  principal  mortgage  was  in  course 
of  foreclosure,  and  a  decree  of  sale  actually  issued.  The  Sab- 
bath evening  lecture,  the  glory  of  the  Tabernacle  from  Mr. 
Finney's  day,  "  the  great  centre  of  its  popularity,  its  useful- 
ness, its  support,  its  success,"  established  by  order  of  the 
church  immediately  after  the  house  was  built,  had  been  sup- 
pressed by  the  pastor,  without  authority,  in  order  to  drive 
the  public  into  taking  sittings.  Mr.  Hale  further  stated  that 
the  session  had  first  claimed  that  the  church  had  no  right  to 
control  their  proceedings,  and,  at  the  Annual  Meeting,  that 
they  had  no  right  to  discuss  them,  and  he  proclaimed  liberty 
as  follows : 

"  I  love  liberty  in  the  churches.  It  is  the  bond  of  union  and  the 
spring  of  energy.  I  love  it  in  all  my  fellow-men.  I  love  it  in  myself 
and  I  mean  to  keep  it.  I  was  born  free  and  I  mean  to  die  free.  I 
received  liberty,  civil  and  religious,  from  my  parents.  I  intend  to  leave 
it,  if  I  can,  to  my  children.  I  contributed  largely  to  the  state  of  things 
which  enabled  this  usurpation  to  be  set  up  over  us,  and  I  do  not  intend 
to  rest  until  I  have  fairly  and  fully  thrown  on  you  the  responsibility 
of  maintaining  your  rights  or  giving  them  up." 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  written  by  Mr. 
Hale  to  his  son  during  this  troublous  period :  * 

"  We  have  very  good  preaching  at  the  Tabernacle  and  in  religious 
privileges  are  very  happy,  though  I  am  having  no  small  controversy 
with  our  pastor  and  elders  in  consequence  of  their  ultra-Presbyterian 
measures,  which  have  been  quite  tyrannical.  I  hope  you  will  be  an 
advocate   everywhere   of   self-government  on   the   part   of  the   people, 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  p.  94. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

of  democracy,  of  Congregationalism  and  the  government  of  the  people 
everywhere  in  church  and  state.  Rich  men  will  oppress,  and  a  love  of 
power  and  domination  is  too  deeply  fixed  in  us  to  be  extirpated  en- 
tirely by  all  the  grace  we  get  in  the  world."  * 

Dr.  Thompson  gives  a  carefully  studied  account  of  Mr. 
Hale's  relation  to  the  Tabernacle  Church,  at  this  time,  and  of 
the  influences  that  made  him  a  pronounced  Congregationalist. 
He  says: 

"  The  effect  of  this  discussion  on  the  mind  of  Mr.  Hale  was  to 
increase  his  jealousy  of  official  prerogatives  in  a  church,  and  his  love 
for  the  free  ecclesiastical  institutions  of  New  England.  He  began  to 
study  more  attentively  the  Word  of  God  with  reference  to  the  rudi- 
mental  principles  of  church  polity  therein  contained.  Thus  the  provi- 
dence of  God  was  preparing  him  to  be,  as  it  were,  the  parent  of  a  new 
movement  in  the  religious  affairs  of  New  York,  and  in  the  midst  of 
ecclesiastical  systems  so  long  established  here  as  to  claim  a  sort  of 
prescriptive  right  to  the  soil,  to  introduce  successfully  that  simple  and 
efficient  system  of  church  polity  which  has  existed  in  New  England 
from  its  first  settlement,  which  is  believed  to  have  been  substantially 
the  system  of  the  primitive  churches,  and  which  best  secures  Christian 
liberty  and  best  develops  Christian  character.  For  such  a  movement 
there  was  needed  a  leader  who  could  confront  jealousy  and  bear  the 
opposition  even  of  brethren,  who  should  be  able  to  defend  the  cause 
he  had  espoused,  one  who  could  go  forward,  if  need  be,  alone  and  in 
face  of  a  virtual  excommunication  from  Christian  fellowship,  to  do 
what  he  felt  to  be  important  for  the  interests  of  truth  and  of  Christ's 
kingdom."  t 

But  the  unrest  continued,  and  clouds  thickened  around  the 
church.  Mr.  Green's  mortgage  was  foreclosed  and  the  Taber- 
nacle advertised  to  be  sold  at  auction.  The  elders  and  trus- 
tees did  all  in  their  power  to  keep  the  building  in  the  hands 
of  the  church.  A  committee  was  appointed  from  other  Presby- 
terian churches  to  devise  some  plan  by  which  the  Tabernacle 
could  be  kept  for  Christian  uses.  It  was  understood  that 
both  the  Catholics  and  the  Universalists  were  desirous  of  buy- 
ing it.    Dr.  Thompson  continues: 

"  Meanwhile  Mr.   Hale  had   resolved  in  the  last  resort  to  buy  the 
Tabernacle  himself.     He  announced  this  intention  to  the  trustees,  re- 
*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  p.  94. 
f  Ibid. ,  pp.  95,  96. 

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The  Founding  of  the  Church 

questing  to  be  notified  whenever  their  own  plans  were  finally  abandoned. 
The  committee  from  other  churches,  believing  it  impossible  to  ex- 
tricate the  Tabernacle  Church  from  its  embarrassments,  approved  Mr. 
Hale's  plan  and  recommended  him  to  make  the  purchase." 

In  Dr.  Thompson's  historical  discourse  preached  April  26, 
1857,*  we  read  that  just  before  the  day  of  sale,  four  or 
five  gentlemen  met  in  a  salesroom  over  the  office  of  the 
Journal  of  Commerce,  to  devise  some  mode  of  preserving 
the  Tabernacle  for  religious  uses.  They  sat  in  the  twilight 
upon  tea-chests  scattered  about  the  room,  and  conferred  awhile 
about  the  course  to  be  taken,  and  then  knelt  together  to  ask 
God's  guidance  and  blessing.  Mr.  David  Hale,  over  whose 
office  the  meeting  was  held  and  who  had  called  it  together, 
offered  to  buy  the  building  on  his  own  responsibility  if  these 
his  friends  would  aid  him  in  raising  funds  for  cash  payments. 
In  the  heat  of  spiritual  fervor,  but  not  without  deliberation, 
was  the  sacrifice  made  that  gave  this  church  its  being.  En- 
dorsed and  substantially  aided  by  his  friends,  Mr.  Hale  bought 
the  Tabernacle  property  at  a  chancery  sale,  July  2,  1840,  for 
$34,363.74,  a  little  more  than  half  its  original  cost. 

"  On  the  evening  of  the  day  of  the  purchase,  at  a  very  full  meeting 
of  the  Tabernacle  Church  (which  then  consisted  of  five  or  six  hun- 
dred members),  Mr.  Hale  informed  them  that  he  had  bought  the  house 
for  their  benefit  and  that  of  the  Christian  public,  and  invited  as  many 
of  the  members  as  might  be  so  disposed  to  unite  with  him  in  forming, 
in  the  Tabernacle,  a  Congregational  church  after  the  pattern  of  the 
primitive  churches  and  the  churches  of  New  England.  The  officers  of 
the  church  were  unfavorable  to  this  movement,  and  the  result  was  that 
the  members  dispersed  in  various  directions  and  the  church  became 
extinct."  t 

It  is  on  record,  later,  that  this  church  applied  to  the  Third 
Presbytery  of  New  York  (New  School)  to  be  dismissed  to  the 
care  of  the  Second  Presbytery  (Old  School),  but  there  is  no 
record  of  its  having  been  received  into  the  Second  Presbytery. 

"  Rev.  Mr.  Parker  preached  in  the  Tabernacle  on  the  following  Sab- 
bath, and  on  Monday  evening,  July  6th,  the  last  meeting  was  held  in 
*  The  Last  Sabbath  in  the  Broadway  Tabernacle,  New  York,  1857. 
f  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  p.  98. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

the  lecture-room  of  the  building.     Notwithstanding  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  officers  of  the  church,  that  the  members  should  unite  with 
other  Presbyterian  churches,  and  the  public  declaration  that  '  not  ten 
respectable    families    in    New    York     would    attend    a    Congregational 
church,'    at   the   close   of  the   meeting   some   thirty   or  forty   brethren 
remained  to  take  measures  for  organizing  such  a  church,  and  having 
conversed  together  upon  the  importance  of  the  step  they  proposed  to 
take,  they  kneeled  down  and  prayed,  commending  themselves  and  the 
church  about  to  be  formed  to  the  guidance  and  care  of  God.     A  com- 
mittee was  then  appointed  to  take  measures  for  the   formation  of  a 
Congregational  church  [consisting  of  Messrs.  David  Hale,  Lucius  Field 
and  Marcus  Hurd].    The  movement  was  entered  into  with  much  spirit; 
several  brethren  from  other  churches  joined  in  it,  and  after  having 
agreed   upon    some    permanent    principles    of   government,    articles   of 
faith,  a  covenant  and  a  form  of  admission,  the  persons  whose  evidences 
of  piety  had  been  made  mutually   satisfactory  upon  examination  en- 
tered into  covenant  with  each  other,  and  with  God,  and  constituted 
themselves  a  church  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  under  the  name  of  Broad- 
way Tabernacle  Church.    The  articles  of  faith,  form  of  admission  and 
covenant  were  substantially  those  of  Park  Street  Church,  Boston.    .    .    . 
"  To  meet  the  obligations  which  he  had  assumed  in  the  purchase  of 
the  Tabernacle,  Mr.  Hale  was  obliged  to  borrow  immediately  between 
nine  and  ten  thousand  dollars.     His  private  resources  at  that  time  were 
limited,  and  the  receipts  of  the  Journal  of  Commerce  were  absorbed 
in  the  payment  of  its  debts.    '  Money  was  worth  two  per  cent,  a  month, 
and  property  and  credit  were  at  the  lowest  ebb.'    It  was  in  such  circum- 
stances that  Mr.  Hale  bought  the  Tabernacle,  not  as  a  matter  of  specu- 
lation—although he  might  have  made  several  thousand  dollars  out  of 
the  transaction— but   for  the  public  good.      He   shouldered   a   burden 
which  Christians  of  ample  fortune  would  not  touch  with  their  little 
finger.     The  foresight  with  which  he  planned  this  purchase,  the  energy 
with  which  he  put  his  plans  in  execution,  the  zeal  and  patience  and 
self-denial   with   which   he   labored   through   evil    report   to   secure   an 
important  public  benefit,  evinced  a  great  and  noble  mind.     He  risked 
all  his  resources  and  all   his  credit  upon  this  one  enterprise,   for  the 
sake  not  of  gain  but  of  good.     He  made  the  venture  in  faith,  and  God 
prospered  him.     When  he  bought  the  Tabernacle  he  had  but  little  un- 
incumbered property.     It  was  necessary  for  him  to  negotiate  a  loan  of 
$9.53382,  which  according  to  the  terms  of  sale  was  to  be  paid  in  cash, 
the  balance  being  payable  by  his  own  notes  or  bond  to  be  liquidated 
by  quarter  yearly  payments  of  $1,250,   with  interest  on  the  principal 
sum.     In  this  he  was  assisted  by  several  gentlemen  of  high  commercial 
standing  and  Christian  character;    among  whom  were  Messrs.  Erastus 
C.  Benedict,  James  Boerman,  James  Brown,  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  Will- 

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The  Founding  of  the  Church 

iam  W.  Chester,  William  B.  Crosby,  Henry  Grinnell,  Robert  T.  Haines, 
Jacob  Little,  Sidney  E.  Morse,  Christopher  R.  Robert  and  A.  R.  Wet- 
more.  The  following  recommendation  was  given  by  three  of  the  gentle- 
men above-named,  who  were  appointed  by  a  meeting  called  for  the 
purpose,  to  '  confer  with  Mr.  Hale  in  regard  to  raising  the  money 
wanted.'    After  stating  the  terms  of  the  loan  they  say, 

'  The  undersigned,  believing  it  to  be  very  important  that  the  Taber- 
nacle should  be  placed  in  such  a  position  that  it  may  be  used  when 
wanted  by  the  various  benevolent  societies  of  the  day  and  for  other 
moral  and  religious  purposes,  deem  it  but  just  and  reasonable  that 
Mr.  Hale  should  be  aided  in  this  laudable  object  by  the  Christian 
public,  and  trust  he  will  receive  aid,  to  the  extent  asked. 

"'Wm.  W.  Chester, 
"  '  R.  T.  Haines, 
"  '  C.  R.  Robert.' 
"  These  gentlemen  did  not  agree  with  Mr.  Hale  in  his  views  of  Con- 
gregationalism,   but   they    appreciated   his    motives    in   purchasing    the 
Tabernacle,  and  had  confidence  in  his  integrity.     With  this  aid  Mr. 
Hale  felt  sure  that  he  could  make  the  building  pay  for  itself  by  public 
uses."  * 

The  church  which  had  been  formed  on  July  6th  was  pub- 
licly installed  by  an  ecclesiastical  council  on  September  3,  1840. 
The  Council  was  composed  of  the  following  persons: 

From  the  Congregational  Church  in  Philadelphia,  Rev. 
John  Todd. 

From  the  First  Congregational  Church  in  New  Haven,  Rev. 
Leonard  Bacon  and  Deacon  Nathan  Whiting. 

From  the  Spring  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  Rev.  William 
Patton,  D.D.,  and  Dr.  Alonzo  S.  Ball. 

From  the  Mercer  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  Rev.  Thomas 
H.  Skinner,  D.D. 

From  the  New  York  Congregational  Church,  Rev.  George 
R.  Haswell  and  Deacon  Munson  Lockwood. 

From  the  Providence  Chapel  Church,  New  York,  Rev.  Jo- 
seph Harrison  and  Deacon  Dagraw. 

From  the  Mission  Church,  New  York,  Rev.  Peter  Lock- 
wood  and  Deacon  Joseph  Harris. 

From  the  High  Street  Church,  Providence,  R.  I.,  Deacon 
Samuel  Billings. 

•Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  pp.  97,  98,  99,  100. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Rev.  John  Marsh  and  Rev.  George  Bush  of  New  York. 

Mr.  David  Hale  and  Mr.  Marcus  Hurd  appeared  before  the 
Council  in  behalf  of  certain  Christian  brethren  who  wished  to 
unite  in  Christian  order  and  laid  before  the  Council  the  Con- 
fession of  Faith  and  form  of  Covenant.  The  certificates  of 
the  following  persons  from  evangelical  churches  were  handed 
in  and  found  satisfactory: 


Mr.  David  Hale, 

Mrs.  Lucy  S.  Hale, 

Mrs.  Lydia  Hale, 

Mr.  Richard  Hale, 

Mr.  Samuel  Pitts, 

Mrs.  Rhoda  P.  Pitts, 

Mr.  Marcus  Hurd, 

Mrs.  Fanny  Hurd, 

Mr.  Abel  K.  Thompson, 

Mr.  Israel  Minor, 

Mrs.  Charlotte  L.  Minor, 

Mr.  Jacob  Brinkerhorr", 

Mrs.  Mary  G.  Brinkerhoff, 

Mr.  Silas  C.  Smith, 

Mrs.  Mary  Smith, 

Mr.  David  I.  Huntington, 

Mrs.  Emily  S.  Huntington, 

Miss  Harriet  S.  Chamberlain, 

Mr.  David  Bourne, 

Mrs.  Mary  Gray, 

Mr.  Francis  N.  Shaw, 

Mr.  William  M.  Ray, 

Mr.  Charles  Roberts, 

Mr.  Martin  Uhler, 

Mr.  Augustus  Hustace, 

Mr.  J.  W.  Fellows, 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  Fellows, 

Mrs.  Charlotte  Crawford, 

Mrs.  Catherine  Potter, 


Mr.  Hezekiah  Whitney, 
Miss  Rachel  B.  Sickles, 
Mr.  John  S.  Savery, 
Mr.  Benjamin  Waterbury, 
Mr.  Isaac  E.  Smith, 
Mr.  George  Williams, 
Mr.  Samuel  C.  Hills, 
Mr.  Hervey  F.  Lombard, 
Mr.  Charles  G.  Weight, 
Miss  Harriet  Barry, 
Miss  Jaquline  Barry, 
Miss  Lavinia  Quackenboss, 
Mr.  George  Dryden, 
Mrs.  Barbary  Dryden, 
Miss  Ann  Hicks, 
Miss  Catharine  Alexander, 
Miss  Elva  James, 
Mrs.  Eliza  H.  Bacon, 
Mr.  Stephen  Pritchard, 
Mr.  Asa  K.  Allen, 
Miss  Cordelia  Halsey, 
Mrs.  Sarah  Probasco, 
Mrs.  Susannah  Orr, 
Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Wicks. 
Mr.  Alfred  W.  Smith, 
Mr.  Leonard  Crocker, 
Mrs.  Penelope  Crocker, 
Mr.  William  G.  West, 
Mr.  Orange  A.  Smith, 


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The  Founding  of  the  Church 

Mr.  John  C.  Cass,  Mrs.  Rebecca  J.  Parker, 

Mrs.  Susan  W.  Cass,  Mr.  Alexander  Patrick, 

Mr. William  G.  Lambert,  Mrs.  Louisa  Patrick, 

Mr.  Asa  Parker,  Mr.  John  W.  Crane, 

Mr.  James  E.  P.  Dean. 

Articles  for  the  regulation  of  the  church  were  presented  and 
approved.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  Mr.  Bacon,  the 
charge  given  by  Mr.  Todd,  and  the  right  hand  of  fellowship 
by  Dr.  Patton. 

On  September  14th  the  church  elected  Brothers  Samuel 
Pitts,  John  C.  Cass,  William  G.  Lambert,  and  Israel  Minor  to 
be  deacons. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  society  was  held  in  the  lecture- 
room  of  Broadway  Tabernacle,  October  20,  1840,  for  organi- 
zation. Dr.  Marcus  Hurd  was  made  chairman,  Mr.  A.  K. 
Thompson,  secretary,  and  six  trustees  were  elected — Messrs. 
David  Hale  and  Alonzo  Calkins  for  one  year;  John  C.  Cass 
and  William  A.  Coit  for  two  years ;  Albert  Woodruff  and  F. 
S.  Grant  for  three  years.  The  incorporation  of  the  society 
was  recorded  in  the  office  of  Register  of  the  City  and  County 
of  New  York,  in  Liber  II.  of  Religious  Incorporations,  page 
42,  January  4,  1841,  at  12  m. 

Thus  the  present  organization  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle 
Church  and  Society  was  successfully  launched. 

Mr.  Hale's  account  of  these  transactions,  written  to  his  son, 
is  as  follows: 

"  I  look  upon  the  purchase  of  the  Tabernacle  as  an  era  in  religious 
policy  in  all  the  country  south  of  New  England.  We  shall  go  for  pure 
Congregationalism  in  all  its  simplicity.  The  story  of  the  matter  was 
on  this  wise.  The  Tabernacle  was  advertised  for  sale  under  a  decree  of 
the  Chancellor  on  the  2d  of  July.  Nine  days  before  the  time  the  rulers 
called  the  people  together  and  disclosed  to  them  the  desperate  state  of 
their  affairs.  Mr.  Parker  had  just  before  announced  his  resignation. 
At  this  meeting  it  was  proposed  to  call  Dr.  Beecher,  and  the  elders 
thought  if  the  church  would  raise  a  large  subscription,  and  call  Dr. 
Beecher  they  could  get  help  for  the  money.  I  said  I  did  not  think  much 
of  such  expedients  as  calling  Dr.  Beecher,  much  as  I  should  approve  of 

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him  as  pastor,  that  time  was  precious,  and  I  thought  I  could  tell  how 
the  house  could  be  saved.  I  thought  Congregationalism  could  save  it. 
They  went  on  with  calling  Dr.  Beecher,  &c,  and  called  meetings  of 
Presbytery,  until  three  days  before  the  sale,  when  a  committee  of  Pres- 
byterian elders  called  on  me  to  know  my  plan.  I  disclosed  my  pecuniary 
means  and  plan  of  operations.  The  result  was  that  they  reported  that 
it  was  inexpedient  to  attempt  to  extricate  the  old  concern,  but  that  I 
had  better  buy  the  house.  I  saw  Mr.  Green,  the  mortgage  on  whose 
claim  the  house  was  to  be  sold,  on  the  next  day  after  the  committee 
called  on  me,  made  the  arrangements  I  wished,  and  the  next  day  after 
that  bought  the  house  at  auction.  I  paid  about  $20,000  by  my  own 
notes,  and  $9,500  in  cash.  The  cash  was  most  of  it  loaned  by  Presby- 
terians for  five  years.  The  old  church  were  astounded  at  the  movement, 
and  although  compelled  to  praise  what  I  had  done  in  the  highest  terms, 
they  were  still  so  angry  that  they  have  left  no  stone  unturned  to  do 
the  new  enterprise  mischief.  We  have,  however,  been  wonderfully 
prospered.  Elder  P.  [itts]  stands  with  us  boldly,  and  is  as  happy  as  a 
prince  in  the  new  attitude  of  affairs.  We  are  strong,  however,  with 
first-rate  men  for  all  posts,  a  capital  choir,  led  by  Mr.  Andrews  of  the 
Academy  of  Music,  and,  above  all,  strong  in  the  Lord,  I  trust.  The 
course  of  the  brethren  is  right.  They  start  with  prayer,  and  go  on 
with  firm  and  humble  steps.  Our  pulpit  has  been  well  supplied  for  a 
month  now  since  we  separated. 

"  The  events  of  Providence  have  wonderfully  favored  us.  I  did  not 
dream  of  bringing  in  Congregationalism  with  the  help  of  Presbyterians, 
but  so  it  is,  and  it  is  most  wonderful.  It  fills  me  with  joy  and  gratitude 
to  see  what  God  has  wrought.  May  the  movement  be  greatly  to  His 
praise.  Our  church  is  not  yet  formed,  but  will  be  probably  in  a  few 
days.  I  sent  you  in  a  bundle  of  papers,  yesterday,  a  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Covenant,  Rules,  &c.  We  are  all  wide  awake  and  extremely 
happy."  * 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hah,  pp.  97,  98. 


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CHAPTER   IV. 
THE  FIRST  PASTORATE. 

The  terms  upon  which  Mr.  Hale  offered  the  use  of  the 
Tabernacle  to  the  newly  organized  church  were  most  generous. 
Dr.  Thompson's  intimate  knowledge  of  both  Mr.  Hale  and 
the  church  gives  weight  to  his  statement  in  regard  to  this 
agreement.    He  says : 

"  Mr.  Hale's  connection  with  the  Tabernacle  was  widely  misunder- 
stood and  misrepresented.  What  he  did  for  the  glory  of  God  and  the 
promotion  of  Christian  truth,  liberty,  activity  and  love,  was  imputed 
to  the  most  narrow  and  selfish  motives.  Having  bought  the  house 
entirely  on  his  own  responsibility  at  a  time  when  his  pecuniary  re- 
sources were  limited,  and  having  given  on  account  of  the  purchase  his 
own  notes  to  a  large  amount,  he  was  obliged  to  open  the  house  more 
freely  to  public  uses  in  order  that  the  income  from  these  lettings  might 
pay  the  interest  on  loans  and  mortgages,  ground-rent,  and  other  current 
expenses,  in  all  exceeding  four  thousand  dollars.  In  so  doing  Mr.  Hale 
sometimes  allowed  the  Tabernacle  to  be  used  for  purposes  which  were 
disapproved  by  the  church  and  the  Christian  community,  and  as  neither 
the  extent  of  his  obligations,  nor  his  agreement  to  surrender  the  prop- 
erty to  the  church  at  cost,  were  generally  known,  the  impression  went 
abroad  that  he  rented  the  building  for  the  sake  of  gain,  and  was  de- 
riving a  handsome  income  from  worldly  amusements.  This  greatly 
scandalized  some  good  people,  and  furnished  his  political  and  personal 
enemies  with  an  inexhaustible  fund  of  satire  and  abuse.  All  this  he 
bore  good-naturedly,  knowing  that  in  due  time  the  whole  matter  would 
be  understood.  He  had  some  peculiar  notions  as  to  the  purposes  for 
which  such  a  building  as  the  Tabernacle  should  be  used,  but  he  was 
ever  ready  to  regard  the  wishes  of  his  brethren  in  the  church,  even 
when  he  had  entire  control  of  the  building.  For  several  years  he  had 
the  sole  management  of  the  building,  renting  it  as  he  had  opportunity 
for  public  purposes,  and  transacting  all  the  business  pertaining  thereto, 
— for  none  of  which  services  did  he  ever  receive  a  single  cent  for  his 
own  benefit.  As  soon  as  the  new  church  was  organized,  Mr.  Hale 
leased  the  Tabernacle  to  the  ecclesiastical  society  or  congregation  for 

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ten  years  at  an  annual  rent  of  one  thousand  dollars.  By  the  terms  of 
this  lease  the  congregation  were  to  have  the  exclusive  use  of  the  audi- 
ence-chamber on  the  Sabbath,  and  of  the  lecture-room  and  other  apart- 
ments during  the  week,  and  to  receive  all  the  revenue  from  pew-rents 
and  collections,  defraying  their  own  expenses, — Mr.  Hale  reserving  the 
right  to  let  the  building  for  miscellaneous  purposes  during  the  week, 
and  engaging  to  meet  all  the  expenses  of  the  property.  It  was  further 
stipulated,  that  at  any  time  within  the  ten  years,  the  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle Society  might  purchase  the  property  at  cost,  interest  included,  and 
that  the  net  income  of  the  building  in  the  interim  should  constitute  a 
sinking  fund  for  such  purpose.  Thus  Mr.  Hale  voluntarily  put  it  out 
of  his  power  ever  to  realize  one  dollar  from  what  might  have  proved  a 
most  lucrative  investment.  He  bought  the  Tabernacle  at  his  own  risk, 
intending  that  the  property  by  its  earnings  should,  as  it  were,  redeem 
itself  for  the  perpetual  use  and  benefit  of  a  Congregational  church. 
An  act  so  disinterested  is  hardly  credited  by  a  selfish  world.  Some 
sinister  motive  is  ever  suspected  by  those  who  know  not  what  it  is  to 
forego  self-interest  for  the  glory  of  God."  * 

At  the  same  time  that  the  church  elected  its  Board  of 
Deacons,  its  first  Church  Committee  was  chosen,  consisting 
of  five  members :  Messrs.  David  Hale,  Marcus  Hurd,  Samuel 
C.  Hills,  Leonard  Crocker,  and  George  Dryden.  The  follow- 
ing articles,  adopted  by  both  the  church  and  society,  defined 
the  duties  of  this  committee,  as  well  as  the  basis  of  union  and 
co-operation  of  both  organizations: 

"  I.  The  Congregation  shall  hold  the  property,  and  receive  the  income, 
and  make  all  pecuniary  engagements,  appropriations  and  payments. 

"  II.  In  calling  a  Pastor  the  Congregation  and  Church  will  act  as  con- 
current bodies — a  majority  of  each  being  necessary  to  constitute  a  call ; 
the  Church  nominating  and  the  Congregation  confirming  or  rejecting 
the  nomination. 

"  III.  The  Committee  of  the  Church  will  provide  for  the  supply  of  the 
pulpit  when  there  is  no  settled  Pastor;  make  the  necessary  arrange- 
ments for  singing,  and,  in  general,  for  the  orderly  celebration  of 
religious  worship;  and  the  Congregation  will  liquidate  all  reasonable 
expenses  thereby  incurred.  Provided,  That  if  the  Congregation  choose 
to  do  so,  they  shall  always  have  the  right  to  make  the  Committee  a 
joint  committee,  by  putting  on  it  as  many  members  of  the  Congregation 
as  have  been  elected  from  the  Church." 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  pp.  104-107. 
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In  reference  to  this  committee  Dr.  Thompson  says: 

"  A  committee  was  agreed  upon  in  order  to  fix  responsibility,  not 
to  confer  power,  the  Church  having  always  retained  that  entirely  in 
their  own  hands."  * 

Mr.  Hale  was  most  anxious  to  avoid  the  pitfalls  into  which 
the  former  Tabernacle  Church  had  been  betrayed.  This,  as 
Dr.  Thompson  points  out,  was  largely  effected  by  the  Con- 
gregational Church  polity  where  matters  are  determined 
openly  by  a  majority  vote  rather  than  by  the  decision  of  a 
few  individuals  who  control  the  affairs  of  the  church.  But 
in  addition  to  this  it  was  thought  wise  to  lay  down  at  the  first 
certain  principles  which  should  govern  the  church's  action 
when  questions  arose  for  settlement  in  regard  to  its  relation 
to  specific  measures  of  reform.  Accordingly  Mr.  Hale  se- 
cured the  adoption  of  the  following  declaration,  the  first  of 
the  Permanent  Rules  f  of  the  church : 

"  The  design  of  a  Christian  Church  we  understand  to  be  the  enjoy- 
ment of  Christian  ordinances  and  the  maintenance  of  the  worship  of 
God." 

In  regard  to  this  declaration  Dr.  Thompson  says :  \ 

"  Such  a  declaration  was  of  great  importance  at  a  time  when  there 
was  a  strong  tendency  to  transform  churches  into  societies  for  particular 
reforms,  and  even  for  political  action.  The  working  of  this  principle 
in  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  has  been  most  happy.  Though 
some  of  the  prominent  members  of.  the  church  are  zealous  for  par- 
ticular measures  of  reform,  the  church  itself  has  never  been  agitated  by 
these  subjects,  for  since  every  brother  is  left  at  liberty  to  advocate 
any  reform,  and  to  join  or  to  organize  any  reform  society,  all  are 
satisfied  with  this  unrestricted  personal  influence  without  demanding 
church  action  in  their  favorite  cause.  Prayer  and  remarks,  with  ref- 
erence to  such  subjects,  are  unrestrained;  personal  action  is  free;  but 
legislation  in  the  church  upon  subjects  so  foreign  to  the  design  of  a 
church  is  not  desired  by  any.  Each  member  of  the  church  is  re- 
sponsible to  his  brethren  for  his  general  walk  and  conversation,  but 

•Joseph  P.  Thompson,  History  of  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church,  etc.,  1846, 
P- 13-  f  Appendix  C. 

X  Joseph  P.Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  H ale,  pp.  102,  103. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

may  appropriate  his  efforts  to  any  department  of  benevolent  labor  to 
which,  in  his  own  judgment,  he  is  called  by  the  Master,  to  whom  he  is 
directly  responsible  for  the  use  of  all  the  talents  which  have  been  com- 
mitted to  his  hands.  At  the  same  time  any  member  of  the  church,  in 
voting  upon  the  reception  of  a  candidate  into  church  fellowship  may 
make  the  opinions  and  practice  of  the  person  with  regard  to  the  use 
and  sale  of  intoxicating  drinks,  slaveholding,  dancing,  and  any  other 
act  of  questionable  morality,  a  test  of  piety,  and  the  whole  church  may 
have  a  common  moral  sentiment  upon  such  subjects  which  shall  express 
itself  as  occasions  arise,  while  they  avoid  the  dangerous  expedient  of 
legislating  on  specific  moral  questions  in  the  abstract. 

"  These  fundamental  principles  of  church  organization  stand  in  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  as  a  monument  of  the  wisdom  and  fore- 
sight of  David  Hale,  who  derived  them  not  from  books  nor  from  men, 
but  from  the  study  of  the  rudiments  of  church  polity  contained  in  the 
New  Testament." 

Having  organized  its  forces,  the  church  proceeded  to  choose 
a  pastor,  and  on  November  30th  the  Rev.  Edward  Warren 
Andrews,  of  West  Hartford,  Conn.,  was  unanimously  elected 
to  minister  to  the  church,  at  a  salary  of  $2,000,  and  on  the 
same  date  the  society  approved  the  nomination  of  the  church. 
Mr.  Andrews  accepted  the  call  and  entered  upon  his  pastoral 
duties  the  first  Sabbath  of  January,  1841. 

Deacon  Lambert  had  served  but  three  months  when  he 
removed  to  Brooklyn,  relinquishing  his  office,  and  on  January 
11,  1841,  Mr.  Albert  Wroodruff  was  elected  deacon,  in  his 
stead.  On  January  25th,  a  few  days  before  Mr.  Andrews's 
installation,  the  following  resolutions,  presented  by  Mr.  Hale, 
were  adopted  by  the  church : 

"  Resolved,  That  the  Church  of  Jerusalem  by  whom,  at  the  suggestion 
of  the  Apostles,  Deacons  were  first  chosen,  did  present  the  brethren 
chosen  to  that  office  before  the  Apostles  that  they  might  receive  ordina- 
tion, and  that  it  is  expedient  for  this  church  to  follow  that  example. 

"  Resolved,  That  the  Brethren  who  have  been  elected  as  deacons  in 
this  church  be  affectionately  requested  to  present  themselves  for  the 
purpose  before  the  Council  to  be  convened  for  the  installation  of  our 
pastor." 

Of  this  Board  of  Deacons  the  first  to  be  elected,  the  only 
one  who  received  all  the  votes  cast,  was  Mr.  Samuel  Pitts, 

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Deacon  1840  to  1853 


The   First  Pastorate 

who,  for  the  first  decade  of  its  life,  devoted  his  time  and 
strength  to  the  spiritual  growth  of  the  church.  Deacon  Pitts  * 
was  at  this  time  not  yet  forty  years  of  age.  He  had  been 
converted  when  a  school-boy  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  under  the 
preaching  of  Dr.  Nettleton;  but  on  returning  to  his  home  in 
Ontario  County,  New  York,  had  gone  into  hotel  service,  mar- 
ried, and  when  twenty-four  years  of  age  was  proprietor  of 
a  hotel  in  Canandaigua,  with  every  prospect  of  pecuniary 
success.  His  life  at  this  time,  though  exemplary,  was  not 
avowedly  religious;  but  a  revival  began  in  Canandaigua  in 
connection  with  the  labors  of  Mr.  Finney,  and  Mr.  Pitts  was 
reconverted  and  consecrated  his  life  anew  to  Christ  and  His 
service.  As  the  keeper  of  a  hotel  upon  a  stage  route  Mr. 
Pitts  had  been  accustomed  to  sell  liquors  at  his  bar;  but 
in  the  new  light  of  Christ's  love  his  conscience  would  not 
permit  him  to  promote  drunkenness  among  his  customers, 
and  he  at  once  destroyed  the  stock  of  intoxicating  liquors  he 
had  on  hand  and  closed  the  bar,  thus  establishing  the  first 
temperance  hotel  in  Western  New  York.  This  occurred  in 
the  beginning  of  the  temperance  movement,  and  his  action 
was  considered  most  quixotic.  It  cost  him  the  custom  and 
support  of  the  community,  and  resulted  in  the  total  loss  of 
property  and  business.  Though  legally  discharged  from  the 
indebtedness  which  his  property  could  not  cancel,  "  he  lived 
scantily  for  years  until  he  had  paid  to  the  creditors,  with 
whom  he  had  compromised,  the  full  amount  of  their  claims."  f 

On  leaving  Canandaigua,  Mr.  Pitts,  after  devoting  some 
time  to  revival  work,  began  a  course  of  study  for  the  ministry 
which  he  was  obliged  to  relinquish  on  account  of  ill-health 
and  seek  more  active  employment.  In  1835  he  came  to  New 
York,  where  he  filled  the  position  of  steward  on  a  steamboat 
running  from  New  York  to  Amboy.  His  former  interest  in 
Mr.  Finney  drew  him  to  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  when  that 
was  opened,  and  he  united  with  the  first  church  of  that  name, 
retaining  his   connection,   as   has   been   seen,   until   the   new 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  The  Good  Man's  Memorial. 
f  Ibid.,  p.  20. 

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church  was  formed  in  1840.  Soon  afterward,  at  the  urgent 
solicitation  of  Mr.  Hale,  on  the  small  salary  of  $500,  Mr. 
Pitts  began  his  work  as  steward  of  the  church,  looking  after 
the  renting  of  the  pews  and  other  temporalities  of  the  church. 
He  was  deacon,  from  the  first;  trustee,  from  1842;  steward, 
young  men's  Bible  class  teacher,  and  pastor's  assistant  until 
failing  health  in  1852  forced  him  to  dissolve  his  connection 
with  the  Tabernacle  and  remove  to  Tecumseh,  Mich.,  where 
he  died,  January  20,  1855.  At  the  sixtieth  anniversary  cele- 
bration of  the  church,  Deacon  Richard  A.  Dorman,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Bible  class  which  Deacon  Pitts  conducted  for 
twelve  years,  recalled  his  memory,  on  the  Reminiscence  Even- 
ing, as  follows: 

"  Nearly  fifty  years  ago  I  was  a  lad  in  the  Sunday-school  of  the  old 
Broadway  Tabernacle.  ...  At  that  time  Deacon  Samuel  Pitts  was 
a  prominent  figure  in  the  Tabernacle  Church.  He  was  a  pastoral 
helper,  giving  his  entire  time  to  the  work,  but  more  especially  to  look 
after  the  young  men.  In  an  ante-room,  opening  off  from  the  main 
auditorium,  he  held  every  Sunday  morning  a  Bible  class  of  some  forty 
young  men.  The  exercises  were  always  commenced  with  prayer,  and, 
after  a  half  hour  study  of  the  lesson,  a  brief  prayer  followed  in  time 
for  a  few  minutes  general  conversation  before  leaving  the  room.  It 
was  an  impressive  scene  to  see  thirty  or  forty  young  men  file  out  of 
that  room  as  the  organ  struck  the  note  of  preparation  for  service,  and 
find  their  respective  places  in  the  audience.  Many  close  and  lasting 
friendships  were  formed  there.  It  was  there  that  I  met  Alex.  Anderson, 
long  since  gone  to  his  reward.  We  became  firm  friends,  boarding 
together  in  the  same  house  for  many  years.  Where  one  went,  the  other 
went  also.  Dr.  Thompson  dubbed  us  Peter  and  John.  So  far  as  I 
know,  no  one  that  belonged  to  that  class  ever  went  wrong,  but  all 
developed  a  sturdiness  of  character  which,  by  the  grace  of  God,  carried 
them  safely  through  the  quicksands  of  a  great  city,  to  usefulness  and 
honor.  No  less  than  three  deacons  in  this  church  received  their  early 
training  there.  Another  member  of  that  class,  Mr.  Charles  Stewart 
Smith,  is  one  of  the  fifteen  gentlemen  who  are  now  endeavoring  to  re- 
claim this  city  from  the  shame  and  degradation  made  possible  by  the 
intrigues  of  a  few  scheming  politicians." 

Still  another  of  this  class,  William  D.  Russell,  converted 
through  the  prayers  and  influence  of  his  teacher,  removed  to 

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The   First  Pastorate 

Newark,  N.  J.,  where  for  many  years  he  devoted  much  time 
and  strength  to  the  building  up  of  the  Belleville  Avenue  Con- 
gregational Church,  of  which  he  was  a  leading  member.  It 
would  be  impossible  at  this  date  to  enumerate  the  multitude 
of  young  men  whose  lives  were  influenced  for  good  by  Mr. 
Pitts.  He  always  refused  to  give  any  estimate  of  the  number 
of  persons  whose  conversion,  humanly  speaking,  was  due  to 
his  Christian  efforts;  but  others  have  computed  the  number 
at  not  less  than  two  hundred.  When  he  left,  after  twelve 
years  of  faithful  service,  the  church  resolved 

"  That  the  many  offices  of  Christian  kindness  and  love  performed  by 
our  Brother  Samuel  Pitts  during  his  long  connection  with  the  church, 
his  cordial  assistance  to,  and  co-operation  with,  the  pastor  in  visiting 
from  house  to  house,  his  ready  sympathy  with  the  sick  and  afflicted 
of  every  name,  and  his  eminent  success  in  laboring  for  the  cause  of 
Christ  and  the  conversion  of  souls,  his  untiring  devotion  to  the  spiritual 
welfare  of  young  men  and  especially  his  labors  in  the  Bible  Class, 
merit  the  heartfelt  gratitude  and  never-ceasing  remembrance  of  the 
members  of  this  church." 

The  young  men  themselves  expressed  their  sorrow  for  his 
loss  in  a  resolution  in  which  they  said  "  his  direct  instrumen- 
tality in  leading  many  of  us  into  the  fold  of  Christ  merits  our 
never-ceasing  and  grateful  remembrance  and  commends  to  us 
an  example  eminently  worthy  of  our  imitation,"  adding  to 
these  appreciative  words,  as  a  testimonial,  a  purse  containing 
$350  in  gold. 

Dr.  Thompson's  short  sketch  of  his  life  has  this  dedica- 
tion: 

"  To  the  '  Pitts  Bible  Class  '  this  brief  memorial  of  their  beloved  and 
honored  teacher,  prepared  and  published  at  their  request,  is  affectionately 
inscribed." 

Looking  back  to  the  short  period  between  1840  and  1852, 
during  which  Mr.  Pitts  labored  for  this  church,  and  remem- 
bering that  Mr.  Hale's  life  closed  in  1849,  more  than  half 
a  century  ago,  it  may  seem  that  undue  stress  has  been  laid 

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upon  the  services  of  these  two  men;  but  Dr.  Thompson, 
when  recounting  the  history  and  work  of  the  Broadway  Tab- 
ernacle Church  in  his  farewell  sermon  *  preached  November 
12,  1871,  pays  them  this  noble  tribute: 

"  In  its  beginning,  this  church  received  the  impress  of  intellectual 
freedom  and  of  spiritual  fervor  from  two  men  who  were,  each  in  his 
way,  among  the  most  remarkable  men  that  I  have  ever  known.  David 
Hale  would  have  gone  to  the  stake  for  the  right  to  speak;  Samuel  Pitts 
would  have  transformed  the  fires  of  martyrdom  into  a  seraphic  column 
of  prayer.  When  a  question  came  up  in  the  Church,  Hale  would  talk 
it  out,  and  Pitts  would  pray  it  out ;  and  if  it  provoked  controversy  and 
threatened  division,  Pitts  with  an  irresistible  fervor  of  devotion  would 
pray  it  down,  and  Hale  with  a  magnanimity  of  concession  that  marked 
his  real  strength  would  give  it  up !  These  twin  spirits  shaped  our 
history." 

Mr.  Andrews,!  the  minister-elect,  belonged  to  a  distin- 
guished ministerial  family.  His  father  was  the  Rev.  William 
Andrews,  Congregational  pastor  at  Windham,  Danbury,  and 
South  Cornwall,  successively,  all  of  whose  sons,  save  one,  be- 
came ministers,  widely  known  by  their  writings,  their  educa- 
tional and  ministerial  work,  or  for  activity  in  connection  with 
the  Catholic  Apostolic  Church.  Edward  Warren  Andrews 
was  born  at  Windham,  Conn.,  July  15,  181 1.  His  preparation 
for  college  was  interrupted,  and  though  he  spent  two  years 
at  Union  College  he  did  not  graduate.  At  nineteen  he  was 
employed  by  the  American  Sunday-school  Union  at  the  West, 
where  he  spent  nine  months  most  usefully.  After  a  course 
of  legal  study,  he  practised  law  for  three  years  in  Litchfield, 
Conn.  When  he  abandoned  the  law  for  the  pulpit  he  felt  that 
he  could  have  made  no  greater  sacrifice.  He  was  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  Litchfield  North  Association,  May  23,  1837, 
and  in  November  was  ordained  and  installed  as  colleague  to 

*  Rev.  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  D.  D.,  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church;  Its  His- 
tory and  Work,  p.  33. 

f  In  this  Chapter  I  have  drawn  freely  from  a  sketch  of  the  first  pastor  of  the 
Tabernacle  Church  written  by  his  nephew,  the  Rev.  Wm.  G.  Andrews,  of  Guil- 
ford, Conn.,  as  well  as  from  a  portion  of  Rev.  E.  W.  Andrews's  Manuscript 
Autobiography. — S.  H.  W. 

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Pastor  184 1  to  1844 


Likeness  taken  late  in  life. 


The   First  Pastorate 

the  Rev.  Nathan  Perkins,  D.D.,  of  West  Hartford,  then  near 
the  close  of  his  beneficent  pastorate  of  almost  sixty-six  years. 
Here  Mr.  Andrews  was  successful  and  happy.  Because  of 
his  unusual  gifts  as  an  orator  his  services  were  in  demand 
for  special  occasions  in  the  neighborhood.  The  oration  which 
he  gave  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  on  Washington's  birthday,  1839, 
is  still  remembered  in  that  township  as  "  a  splendid  effort." 
He  had  only  closed  the  third  year  of  his  ministry  in  West 
Hartford  when  he  was  summoned  to  New  York.  The  call  to 
the  Broadway  Tabernacle  was  a  tempting  one  to  a  young 
country  minister,  yet  he  seems  to  have  hesitated.  But  men 
of  weight  in  his  neighborhood  like  Dr.  Porter,  of  Farming- 
ton,  and  Drs.  Hawes  and  Bushnell,  of  Hartford,  convinced 
him  that  it  was  his  duty  to  lead  the  most  hopeful  Congrega- 
tional enterprise  in  New  York. 

The  great  multiplication  of  Presbyterian  churches  in  New 
York,  in  connection  with  Mr.  Finney's  evangelistic  labors,  has 
already  been  noted.  The  casting  out  by  the  General  Assembly 
of  the  presbyteries  that  had  been  formed  under  the  Plan  of 
Union,  awakened  in  Congregationalists  a  new  sense  of  the 
fitness  and  adaptability  of  their  own  church  polity,  and  though 
other  denominations  shared  in  this  awakening  and  had  like 
assurance  of  faith,  probably  none  felt  more  keenly  the  neces- 
sity of  asserting  itself.  A  dozen  or  more  Congregational 
churches  had  been  gathered,  in  New  York  and  vicinity,  by 
1840.  Four  of  these  were  represented  in  the  councils  for 
recognizing  the  Tabernacle  Church  and  installing  its  pastor, 
but  they  led  a  struggling  existence,  most  of  them  hardly  sur- 
viving their  infancy.  There  was  a  Congregational  church  in 
Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1837;  but  the  oldest  now  existing  in  that 
city  was  organized  in  185 1.  The  First  Congregational  Church 
of  Brooklyn  was  formed  April  14,  1838;  but  the  Church  of 
the  Pilgrims,  instituted  in  1844,  is  the  oldest  Brooklyn  church 
now  entered  in  the  Congregational  year-book. 

According  to  his  own  recollection,  Mr.  Andrews  began  his 
ministry  in  October.  He  certainly  preached  more  than  one 
Sabbath  before  receiving  his  call — a  unanimous  one,  though 

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there  were  two  candidates — but  he  was  not  formally  dismissed 
from  West  Hartford  until  December ;  and,  though  his  pastoral 
work  began  with  the  New  Year,  he  was  not  installed  until 
January  31,  1841. 

At  the  opening  of  the  enterprise  the  prediction  had  been 
made  that  "  a  Congregational  church  formed  at  the  Broadway 
Tabernacle  would  become  a  home  for  dissatisfied,  restless, 
ungovernable  spirits  from  other  churches,  and  would  soon 
develop  into  a  hornets'  nest,  involved  in  civil  war,  and  sting 
itself  to  death."  At  once  Mr.  Andrews  was  made  sensible  of 
the  prejudice  with  which  Presbyterians  regarded  all  attempts 
to  establish  Congregationalism  in  the  metropolis.  Even  those 
of  the  New  School  showed  some  natural  jealousy  at  the  pros- 
pect of  a  flourishing  church  that  was  already  gathering  in 
many  New  Englanders  in  the  very  heart  of  the  city.  The 
New  School  churches  had  been  accustomed  to  welcome  all 
such  to  their  fold  and  transform  them  into  stanch  Presby- 
terians. After  so  many  abortive  attempts,  for  Congregation- 
alists  to  set  up  a  successful  church  of  their  own  order  seemed 
almost  intrusive.  A  distinguished  Old  School  minister,  the 
Rev.  Gardiner  Spring,  D.D.,  not  an  extreme  man,  and  a  New 
Englander  by  birth  and  training,  told  Mr.  Andrews  that  he 
was  sorry  to  see  him  in  New  York  on  such  a  mission;  that 
his  efforts  must  fail;  that  Congregationalism  was  an  exotic 
in  New  York,  and  would  never  flourish. 

The  service  of  installation  was  held  on  Sabbath  evening.  Be- 
sides three  neighboring  Congregational  churches — the  Provi- 
dence Chapel  (New  York),  the  New  York  Congregational 
and  the  New  York  Mission  Churches — and  the  Third  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Brooklyn,  four  more  distant  churches  were 
represented  on  the  council — the  Beneficent  Church,  Providence, 
R.  I. ;  the  North  and  Third  Churches  of  New  Haven,  and 
the  Congregational  Church  of  Kent,  Conn.  The  Rev.  W.  \V. 
Andrews,  of  Kent,  the  new  pastor's  brother,  a  man  of  rare 
intellectual  and  spiritual  gifts,  preached  the  sermon.  Dr. 
Tucker,  of  Providence,  gave  the  charge  to  the  pastor;  Mr. 
Dutton,   the   right   hand  of  fellowship;    Mr.   Cleveland,   the 

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charge  to  the  people;   the  two  latter  being  noted  New  Haven 
clergymen.    Mr.  Hale  wrote  of  the  services: 

"  Mr.  Andrews  was  installed  on  the  last  Sabbath  evening  of  January. 
The  exercises  were  excellent,  the  house  full.  Even  Presbyterians  pres- 
ent were  filled  with  admiration.  Prime  Yankees  are  now  joining  us 
from  all  the  churches  round  about.  About  thirty  are  now  propounded. 
Everything  has  been  ordered  admirably  in  Providence.  Never  did  God 
prosper  anything  more.  I  bless  His  name  and  am  happy,  and  have  been 
from  the  day  I  bought  the  house.  Our  pastor,  we  think,  is  just  the  man 
— of  the  Connecticut  Old  School — and  now  if  God  will  add  the  blessing 
of  His  Spirit,  sinners  will  be  converted."  * 

It  will  be  seen  from  this  that  Mr.  Andrews  was  strongly- 
conservative  in  opinion,  and  certainly  he  was  far  more  con- 
servative in  feeling  than  Mr.  Hale.  Under  his  ministry  the 
church  grew  rapidly.  It  had  seventy-four  members  that  first 
Sunday  in  January  when  his  pastorate  began.  During  that 
year  one  hundred  and  eleven  were  added  to  the  membership 
of  the  church,  one  hundred  of  these  by  letter;  which  shows 
what  attraction  a  vigorous  Congregational  church  had  for 
Christians  who  had  been  obliged  to  seek  a  spiritual  home  else- 
where. They  came  in  companies  at  every  communion  ser- 
vice; in  March  thirty-two,  thirty-one  of  them  by  letter;  May, 
eighteen,  all  but  one  by  letter ;  July,  twenty,  eighteen  by  letter ; 
September,  seventeen,  fifteen  by  letter ;  and  in  November,  when 
the  religious  interest  began  to  awaken,  which  deepened  as  the 
winter  went  on  into  a  spiritual  revival,  twenty-four,  five  of 
whom  were  received  on  confession  of  their  faith — two  of  the 
latter  being  daughters  of  Mr.  Hale.  Deducting  all  losses  by 
death  and  removals,  at  the  close  of  1841,  the  church  numbered 
one  hundred  and  seventy-six.  The  second  year,  when  the 
fruits  of  the  revival  were  gathered  in,  nearly  as  many  were 
received  on  confession  as  by  letter,  one  hundred  and  thirty  in 
all,  seventy  on  confession.  Taking  into  account  all  losses, 
in  December,  1842,  the  church  numbered  two  hundred  and 
seventy-three.  In  two  years  and  a  half  the  original  number 
had  more  than  quadrupled.     Mr.  Hale  might  well  write  that 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  p.  101. 
6l 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

year  of  the  Tabernacle :    "  It  has  so  far  been  the  most  suc- 
cessful religious  enterprise  ever  undertaken  in  this  city." 

Were  there  no  living  witnesses  to  the  power  of  Mr.  An- 
drews's preaching,  this  remarkable  growth  of  the  church  would 
be  sufficient  testimony,  and  the  following  entry  in  the  records 
of  a  parish  meeting,  in  1841,  shows  plainly  that  he  was  then 
preaching  to  crowded  houses: 

"  Resolved,  That  the  trustees  be  hereby  directed  to  take  effectual 
measures  for  protecting  their  pews  on  the  Sabbath,  at  least  during  the 
day  time.  Passed.  Mr.  Andrews  expressed  the  discomfort  in  his  own 
feelings  from  not  seeing  his  parishioners  regularly  in  their  wonted 
places,  from  their  seats  being  preoccupied  by  strangers.  Common  in- 
terests would  be  promoted  by  a  more  rigid  maintenance  of  rights." 

At  this  meeting  the  complaint  was  made  that  the  seats  for 
colored  people  (assigned  to  them  at  the  right  of  the  pulpit) 
were  being  encroached  upon,  too  large  a  space  was  given  up 
to  them  so  that  room  was  wasted,  and  it  was  voted  that  "  it 
is  desirable  the  colored  people  should  regularly  occupy  the 
seats  designated."  In  October,  1842,  the  order  was  revoked 
that  seats  should  be  free  on  Sunday  evenings. 

Distrust  of  the  new  Congregational  enterprise  began  to 
abate.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Phillips,  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  New  York,  then  worshipping  in  Wall  Street,  was 
the  first  to  break  through  the  walls  of  denominational  exclu- 
sion and  propose  to  the  young  minister  an  exchange  of  pul- 
pits, and  before  his  first  year  in  the  city  had  closed  even  Dr. 
Spring  had  preached  in  the  "  exotic."  * 

During  the  revival  of  1841-42  the  pastor  was  assisted  by 
the  Rev.  Edward  N.  Kirk,  later  of  Boston,  who  held  evan- 
gelistic services  in  the  church.  Among  the  converts  of  that 
year  was  the  very  eminent  Christian,  the  late  Jeremiah  C. 
Lanphier,  founder  of  the  "  Fulton  Street  prayer-meeting," 
whose  own  modest,  faithful  labor  for  Christ  was  honored  of 
God  as  that  of  few  men  anywhere  has  been.  It  is  believed 
that  thousands  were  led  to  begin  a  Christian  life  through  his 

*  Rev.  E.  W.  Andrews,  Autobiography  in  manuscript. 
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direct  or  indirect  influence.  One  who  was  an  attendant  at 
the  Tabernacle  services  as  early  as  1843,  in  mentioning  "  that 
devoted  Christian  worker,  Mr.  Lanphier,"  recalls  "  his  sweet, 
sanctified  face,  not  sanctimonious  at  all,  but  a  cheerful,  lovable 
man."  *  A  photograph  of  Mr.  Lanphier  was  found  among  the 
papers  of  his  old  pastor  after  the  death  of  the  latter.  The 
story  of  Mr.  Lanphier's  conversion  has  been  written  by  Mr. 
Andrews : 

"  When  I  went  to  the  Tabernacle  Mr.  Lanphier  was  a  member  of 
the  choir,  and  his  rich,  sweet  tenor  voice,  which  has  since  been  listened 
to  with  pleasure  by  Christians  from  all  parts  of  the  world  at  the  '  Fulton 
Street  prayer  meeting '  was  one  of  the  attractive  features  of  our  music. 
He  was  then  associated  in  business,  as  a  merchant  tailor,  with  Mr. 
Geo.  Andrews,  the  able  leader  of  our  choir  during  all  my  pastorate  and 
from  the  beginning  of  its  history  one  of  the  most  devoted  and  efficient 
friends  and  supporters  of  the  Tabernacle  Church. 

"  One  day,  near  the  opening  of  the  revival,  I  was  out  walking,  and 
passing  the  store  of  'Andrews  and  Lanphier' on  Fulton  Street  I 
went  in.    In  the  course  of  the  conversation  that  ensued  I  said  to  Mr.  L. 

"  '  We  are  under  great  obligation  to  you,  sir,  for  the  assistance  you 
render  us  as  a  member  of  our  choir.  I  trust  the  day  is  not  distant  when 
you  will  stand  in  a  nearer  and  more  sacred  relation  to  us  as  a  member 
of  our  church.' 

"  The  remark  seemed  disagreeable  to  him  and  he  replied  with  a  spirit 
and  emphasis  quite  unusual  for  him, 

"  '  Dominie,  I  don't  know  but  regeneration,  as  it  is  termed,  is  necessary 
for  some — for  me  it  is  unnecessary.  I  don't  know  that  I  have  ever 
intentionally  done  wrong  to  God  or  man.' 

"  This  was  an  assertion  of  self-righteousness  so  bold  and  unqualified, 
and  unexpected  from  this  mild  and  amiable  gentleman  that  it  almost 
took  my  breath  away,  and  simply  saying,  '  You  may  yet,  my  dear  sir, 
see  the  subject  in  a  different  light  and  my  prayer  shall  be  that  you  will,' 
I  bade  him  good-morning. 

"  On  the  next  Sunday  evening  I  preached  about  the  Young  Ruler 
whose  good  opinion  of  himself  our  Saviour  disposed  of  so  summarily.  I 
endeavored  to  hold  up  a  mirror  in  which  all  self-righteous  men  like  Mr. 
Lanphier  could  distinctly  see  their  moral  likeness.  For  the  next  Tues- 
day evening  I  appointed  an  '  enquiry  meeting '  as  I  knew  there  were 
a  number  in  the  congregation  specially  interested  in  seeking  the  salva- 
tion of  their  souls.  When  I  reached  the  appointed  meeting  I  was  de- 
lighted to  find  the  room  filled  and  among  the  first  I  recognized  was 
*  Mr.  Samuel  G.  Smith,  Middletown,  Conn. 

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Mr.  Lanphier.  He  was  one  of  the  first  I  spoke  to,  and  such  a  sudden 
and  complete  change  in  the  moral  attitude  of  a  man  toward  God,  I 
had  never  before  witnessed.  From  a  position  of  asserted  moral  inno- 
cence, of  boastful  independence  of  divine  grace,  he  now  looked  upon 
himself  as  so  guilty  before  God  and  so  deserving  of  the  threatened 
penalty  of  His  holy  law  that  he  declared  his  doubts  whether  mercy 
could  reach  him." 

Air.  Lanphier  continued  for  some  days  in  great  distress  of 
mind  until  Mr.  Andrews  again  called  at  his  place  of  business 
and  proposed  that  they  should  go  together  to  his  private  room 
above.  There  they  kneeled  together,  and  while  the  pastor 
prayed,  deliverance  came,  and  "  the  sight  of  the  Cross  eased 
him  of  his  burden." 

Mr.  Andrews's  endowments,  as  a  preacher,  were  many  and 
remarkable.  His  external  charms  of  face,  voice,  and  action 
are  described  as  fascinating;  his  style  was  clear,  direct,  and 
forceful.  A  highly  intelligent  listener  characterized  his  ad- 
dresses as  "  imposing  oratory."  All  testimony  that  can  be 
collected  at  this  late  day  is  uniform  as  respects  the  power  of 
Mr.  Andrews  to  attract  and  delight  great  congregations.  A 
writer  in  a  suburban  newspaper  said  of  a  religious  lecture 
delivered  by  him  when  he  was  past  seventy,  that  at  times  it 
"  reminded  some  of  his  audience  of  the  eloquent  young 
preacher  who,  over  forty  years  ago,  drew  crowds  to  hear 
him  at  the  Broadway  Tabernacle."  A  series  of  Pulpit  Sketches 
appeared  at  that  period  in  the  New  World,  a  literary  weekly 
edited  by  Park  Benjamin,  Epes  Sargent,  and  R.  W.  Griswold. 
In  the  twenty-fourth  number  of  the  series  may  be  found  the 
following  contemporaneous  judgment: 

"  We  were  astonished  to  hear  Mr.  Andrews,  a  young  man  apparently 
about  five-and-twenty,*  address  an  audience  of  four  thousand  people  at 
the  Tabernacle,  in  a  style  of  thought  and  language  not  often  equalled  by 
sexagenarian  doctors.  .  .  .  Mr.  Andrews  is  evidently  conscious  of  his 
high  responsibilities;  he  speaks  what  he  feels.  .  .  .  Whatever  he 
treats,  he  treats  with  the  confidence  and  success  of  a  master.  J  uveitis 
amiis,  scientia  senex,  he  merits  the  highest  commendation  which  it  is 
in  our  power  to  bestow." 

*  lie  was  twenty-nine  when  installed. 
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The  Tabernacle  would  hold,  though  it  could  not  seat,  some- 
what more  than  3,000,  but  the  crowds  that  surged  into  the 
building  filled  the  seats,  and  eager  listeners  stood  thronging 
the  aisles.  Particularly  was  this  true  when  the  seven  Sun- 
day evening  lectures  on  the  Second  Advent  were  delivered  in 
1843.  Mr.  Andrews  was  an  ardent  advocate  of  the  doctrine 
that  Christ's  Second  Coming  will  precede  the  Millennium.  "He 
preached  much  on  Daniel,  and  expounded  the  Prophecies," 
says  one  of  his  old  hearers ;  and  the  New  York  Herald  stated 
with  reference  to  the  last  of  these  popular  discourses  that 
"  ten  thousand  people  tried  in  vain  to  get  into  the  already  over- 
crowded building."  One  evidence  of  popularity,  particularly 
gratifying  to  the  preacher,  was  given  when  members  of  sev- 
eral Presbyterian  churches  took  pews  in  the  Tabernacle  for 
use  at  the  evening  service. 

But  the  church  was  growing  in  other  directions  also.  In 
1840,  when  the  Sunday-school  was  formed  in  the  lecture-room, 
there  were  three  or  four  teachers  and  twelve  scholars ;  *  but 
the  number  soon  increased  so  that  in  a  little  more  than  eigh- 
teen months  there  were  about  fifty  teachers  and  nearly  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  scholars,  inclusive  of  the  members  of  seven 
Bible  classes.  Deacon  Pitts's  class  has  already  been  noticed ; 
Mr.  William  W.  Fessenden  had  the  Woman's  Bible  Class 
"  for  Mutual  Improvement,"  with  forty  members.  But  this 
was  not  all,  for  at  the  same  time  there  were  six  mission 
schools,  held  in  different  parts  of  the  city,  the  superintendents 
and  many  of  the  teachers  of  which  were  members  of  the 
church  or  congregation. 

At  that  date  few  of  our  churches  were  conscious  of  their 
responsibility  for  the  spread  of  the  Gospel.  Individual  church 
members  realized  it,  and  missionary  societies  were  formed, 
but  few  churches  had  any  organized  scheme  for  contributing 
to  Christian  work  outside  of  the  support  of  the  Gospel  ordi- 
nances for  their  congregations.  In  March,  1841,  a  plan  for 
the  distribution  of  the  charities  of  the  church  that  included 
collections  for  the  American  Board  and  the  New  York  Sun- 

*  History  of  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church,  1846. 
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day-school  Union  was  presented  to  the  church,  but  action 
upon  it  was  postponed.  The  matter  was  taken  up  again  in 
November,  and  then  laid  on  the  table,  the  church  voting  that 
it  was  "  inexpedient  that  public  contributions  should  be  taken 
up  on  the  Sabbath  for  any  other  purpose  than  the  support  of 
public  worship  and  Christian  ordinances  in  this  church  and 
congregation."  And  so  the  long-handled  wooden  contribution 
boxes  were  passed  and  thrust  to  the  farthest  end  of  each  pew 
that  every  penny  might  be  collected  for  the  support  of  the 
ordinances  of  their  own  church.  These  Sabbath  collections 
for  meeting  current  expenses  continued  for  many  years.  No 
doubt  the  weight  of  their  obligations  to  Mr.  Hale  made  the 
church  eager  to  secure  all  possible  gifts  toward  the  cancelling 
of  that  indebtedness,  but  the  strong  motive  that  produced  this 
action  was  the  wish  to  prevent  the  church  in  those  days  of 
benevolent  enterprise  from  pledging  itself  to  become  the  ad- 
junct of  any  altruistic  organization.  The  church  should  be 
free  to  give  or  not,  when  and  how  it  pleased,  and  no  cast-iron 
rules  should  bind  it  to  contribute  regularly  to  any  cause,  espe- 
cially as  the  church  was  not  at  one  as  regards  the  attitude 
of  the  leading  societies  of  the  day  toward  slavery;  and  the 
Congregational  churches  had  not  then,  as  now,  their  own 
denominational  charities.  The  preamble  and  resolutions 
adopted  at  this  time  *  show  that  the  church  did  not  wish  to 
cut  itself  off  from  all  Christian  benevolence,  for  the  pastor  was 
requested  to  use  his  best  judgment  in  bringing  before  the 
congregation  the  claims  of  Christian  charity.  Four  years 
later,  in  July,  1845,  the  church  adopted  a  resolution  authoriz- 
ing the  committee  of  the  church  to  cause  a  contribution  to 
be  taken  up  at  the  close  of  the  service  whenever  objects  had 
been  presented  for  the  consideration  of  the  congregation. 
That  the  church  was  not  indifferent  to  the  cause  of  missions 
is  shown  by  the  fact  that  as  early  as  1844  a  well-sustained 
Sunday  -  school  missionary  society  was  organized,  and  the 
women  of  the  society  were  supporting  a  home  missionary  in 
the  West. 

*  Appendix  D. 

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Another  circumstance,  entered  in  the  church  records,  marks 
the  conservatism  of  Mr.  Hale.  When  in  May,  1843,  Mf-  Will- 
iam G.  West,  a  strong  advocate  of  total  abstinence  principles, 
offered  a  resolution  that  the  deacons  procure  unfermented 
wine  for  communion  use,  Mr.  Hale  moved  that  the  resolution 
be  indefinitely  postponed,  and  his  motion  was  promptly  car- 
ried. 

The  prayer-meeting,  during  those  early  years,  was  held  on 
Monday  evenings.  It  was  voted,  December  20,  1842,  that  all 
matters  of  church  business  were  to  be  transacted  soon  after  the 
beginning  of  the  meeting,  instead  of  at  the  close ;  and,  early 
in  1842,  it  was  agreed  that  a  collection  should  be  taken  up  at 
the  prayer-meeting  every  second  Monday  evening,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Sunday-school.  At  the  annual  meeting,  Feb- 
ruary, 1844,  the  prayer-meeting  was  changed  from  Monday 
to  Tuesday  evening,  except  that,  on  the  first  Monday  of  the 
month,  the  monthly  concert  of  prayer  for  the  conversion  of 
the  world  took  the  place  of  the  regular  church  prayer-meeting. 
The  dates  of  the  communion  service  were  also  changed,  the 
first  communion  of  the  year  being  on  the  first  Sunday  of  Jan- 
uary instead  of  February,  and  so  continuing  on  the  alternate 
months  through  the  year. 

Early  in  1844  a  project  of  forming  a  Congregational  Union 
was  started  by  some  churches  in  the  vicinity,  and  the  Taber- 
nacle Church  was  invited  to  join  the  enterprise.  The  prin- 
cipal features  of  this  union,  as  proposed,  were  that  it  should 
act  as  an  advisory  body,  and  be  a  council  for  the  purpose  of 
taking  into  consideration  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare 
of  the  churches,  which  might  demand  its  attention — with  the 
design  of  promoting  harmony  and  intercourse  among  the 
churches — communicating  information  respecting  the  state  of 
religion  within  its  bounds,  devising  means  and  measures  for 
advancing  the  interests  of  Christ's  kingdom,  and  producing  a 
more  extensive  co-operation  in  every  good  work.  The  ques- 
tion of  joining  this  union  was  elaborately  discussed  at  several 
meetings  held  for  the  purpose;  and  the  measure  was  strenu- 
ously advocated  by  some,  on  the  ground  principally  of  the  sup- 

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posed  urgent  necessity  for  some  plan  of  union  and  co-opera- 
tion between  the  Congregational  churches  in  the  vicinity  of 
New  York.  Mr.  Hale  insisted  that  the  union  "  should  be  for- 
ever debarred  from  exercising  any  ecclesiastical  authority 
whatever."  Other  objections  urged  were  that  such  organiza- 
tions were  unscriptural,  uncongregational,  unnecessary,  and 
likely  to  lead  to  controversies  and  dissensions  not  only  among 
but  in  the  churches,  and,  finally,  that  uniting  with  the  pro- 
posed Union  would  be  in  direct  contravention  of  the  first 
declaration  of  this  church  as  to  the  design  of  a  Christian 
church.  The  church  took  no  action  as  to  joining  the  Union 
because  of  this  diversity  of  opinion.  This  was  nine  years  be- 
fore the  formation  of  the  American  Congregational  Union,  in 
which  the  Tabernacle  Church  was  most  actively  engaged. 

It  was  early  in  this  same  year,  January  29,  1844,  that  the 
second  strong  Congregational  church  of  Greater  New  York, 
the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  was  formed  in  Brooklyn,  partly 
at  the  instance  and  through  the  influence  of  Mr.  Hale,  who 
contributed  $2,000  toward  the  church  building  that  was  then 
put  up  on  the  corner  of  Henry  and  Remsen  Streets  at  a  cost 
of  $65,000.  What  this  church  became  under  the  brilliant  min- 
istry of  Dr.  Storrs,  it  is  needless  to  say,  or  how  it  supplied 
the  friends  of  Congregationalism  with  another  powerful  argu- 
ment. Seven  other  Congregational  churches,  those  of  Dr. 
Cheever  and  Henry  Ward  Beecher  being  among  them,  were 
established  in  the  two  cities  during  the  first  five  years  of  Dr. 
Thompson's  pastorate,  to  all  of  which  Mr.  Hale  contributed 
generously,  but  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims  would  hardly  have 
been  formed,  nor  would  the  Congregational  movement  have 
gathered  such  force,  but  for  the  phenomenal  growth  of  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  under  Mr.  Andrews's  ministra- 
tions. In  a  short  notice  of  him,  which  appeared  after  his  death, 
he  was  described  as  the  founder  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle. 
With  equal  reason  he  might  be  called  the  "  Father  of  Con- 
gregationalism in  Greater  New  York."  In  fact,  both  titles, 
if  they  belong  to  any  man,  belong  to  the  devout,  unselfish, 
energetic,   patient,   clear-headed,    free-handed    layman,    David 

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Hale.    But  he  could  not  have  dispensed  with  the  help  which 
he  received  from  both  the  ministers  with  whom  he  labored, 
and  no  one  of  the  three  men  is  in  need  of  any  borrowed  honor. 
But  Mr.  Hale  and  Mr.  Andrews  were  ill  fitted  to  be  yoke- 
fellows.    Mr.  Andrews,  a  conservative  to  the  core,  too  easily 
thought  Mr.  Hale  a  radical,  which  in  most  respects  he  cer- 
tainly was  not.     Mr.  Hale  believed  that  "a  house"  (includ- 
ing the  house  of  worship)  is  a  place  for  special  convenience 
for  men,  not  for  special  presence  of  God ;  *  that  a  place  could 
not  be  desecrated  by  any  use  not  in  itself  sinful  and  the  Tab- 
ernacle, for  which  Mr.  Hale  had  assumed  such  heavy  obliga- 
tions  and    for   which   he    neither    sought   nor   received    any 
pecuniary  advantage,  might  lawfully  be  used  as  a  place  of 
amusement  on  week-days  so  that  it  might  continue  to  be  a 
place  of  worship  on  Sunday.     As  an  illustration  of  the  annoy- 
ance this  use  of  the  audience-room  sometimes  made  the  church, 
Mr.  Samuel  G.  Smith,  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  recalls  an  exhibi- 
tion of  laughing  gas  given  in  the  Tabernacle  "  which  caused 
great  merriment,   cheering,  and   stamping  of   feet   from   the 
audience.    At  this  stage  Mr.  Hale  came  up  from  below,  and 
with  a  very  graceful  bow  congratulated  them  upon  the  suc- 
cess of  the  exhibition ;   he  then  continued :    '  There  is  a  meet- 
ing, a  religious  meeting  below,  and  will  you  manifest  your 
approval  and  enjoyment  by  just  a  clapping  of  the  hands  '  (suit- 
ing the  action  to  his  words)   '  and  not  by  stamping  on  the 
floor.'     Then  with  another  graceful  bow  he  withdrew,  amid 
cheers."    The  editor  of  the  New  York  Herald,  Mr.  Bennett, 
whose  friendly  gibes  at  Mr.  Hale's  expense,  represented  him 
with  pockets  lined  with  gold  from  his  speculation  in  church 
property,  made  this  another  occasion  to  blaspheme.     It  was 
during  this  year,  in  the  political  campaign  of  Clay  and  Polk, 
that  a  meeting  of  such  Democrats  as  opposed  the  annexation 
of  Texas,  but  yet  supported  Polk,  was  held  in  the  Tabernacle. 
The  meeting,  which  was  addressed  by  David  Dudley  Field, 
William  Cullen  Bryant,  and  others,  was  broken  up  by  the  infa- 
mous Captain  Rynder's  rowdies  and  heelers.     It  is  not  sur- 

*  Memoir,  p.  324. 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

prising  that  some,  besides  Mr.  Andrews,  were  disturbed  by  Mr. 
Hale's  way  of  carrying  out  his  theory,  and  vigorously  opposed 
it. 

Other  personal  reasons  conspired  to  induce  Mr.  Andrews, 
after  about  three  and  a  half  years  of  ministerial  service  in 
New  York,  to  ask  for  release  from  his  charge.  This  he  did 
July  30,  1844,  and,  his  resignation  having  been  accepted,  he 
was  formally  dismissed  by  a  mutual  council  on  August  14th. 
He  preached  his  farewell  sermon  Sunday  morning,  August 
1 8th.  He  left  to  his  successor  a  strong,  united,  and  highly 
influential  church,  and  he  had  made  it  impossible  to  regard 
Congregationalism  any  longer  as  a  hazardous  experiment  in 
New  York. 

Mr.  Andrews's  after-life  was  a  varied  one.  In  December, 
1844,  he  became  pastor  of  the  Second  Street  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  May,  1848. 
He  then  established  a  boys'  boarding  school  (the  Alger  Insti- 
tute) in  his  father's  old  parish  of  South  Cornwall,  and  had 
under  his  care  many  sons  of  his  former  parishioners  in  Troy 
and  New  York.  Before  the  close  of  1853  he  had  disposed  of 
his  school,  and,  in  New  York  City,  resumed  the  practice  of 
the  law,  which  had  always  attracted  him  strongly.  He  be- 
came also  an  active  politician,  and  until  almost  the  close  of 
his  life  was  in  much  request  as  a  political  speaker.  When 
the  Civil  War  broke  out  he  entered  the  army,  became  the  Chief 
of  Staff  to  General  Morris,  commanding  the  defences  of  Balti- 
more, and  held  the  rank  of  colonel.  After  the  war  he  was 
a  lawyer  and  editor  in  West  Virginia,  and  later  practised  law 
in  Michigan.  As  early  as  1870,  when  not  quite  sixty,  he  be- 
gan once  more  to  labor  as  a  preacher  and  had  charge  of  a 
Union  Church  in  Michigan,  though  obliged  to  continue  law 
practice  to  support  his  family.  After  the  winter  of  1875-76, 
when  he  found  his  religious  life  greatly  quickened  and  up- 
lifted, he  availed  himself  of  every  opportunity  to  preach.  But 
most  of  his  work,  and  probably  his  best,  was  done  as  an 
evangelist,  especially  in  West  Virginia,  where  his  success  was 
remarkable,  and  where  he  gained  a  battle  with  "  organized 

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infidelity."  In  this  capacity  he  had  full  scope  for  what  re- 
mained of  his  old  eloquence.  After  1885  the  burden  of  years 
and  attacks  of  illness  made  labor  in  either  profession  less 
practicable.  In  1888  he  had  temporary  charge  of  a  small  Pres- 
byterian church  in  Fairfax  County,  Va.,  and  he  continued  to 
preach  when  he  could  to  the  end.  His  conservatism  was  still 
intense,  not  only  in  theology  but  in  politics,  and,  though  suf- 
fering from  disease,  disappointment,  and  straitened  circum- 
stances, he  still  trusted  in  God  and  clung  firmly  to  the  blessed 
hope  of  his  Lord's  Return.  He  died  at  Norwood  Park,  Chi- 
cago, September  2,  1895,  in  the  house  of  his  youngest  sur- 
viving child,  Mrs.  Merwin-Marie  Snell.  Mr.  Andrews  pub- 
lished comparatively  little,  though  many  of  his  sermons  and 
addresses  were  reported  by  the  press.  He  married,  October 
9,  1834,  Mary  Le  Baron  Gilbert,  of  Fair  Haven,  Vt.  Of  their 
eleven  children,  two  sons,  Captain  Edward  Watson  Andrews, 
and  Warren  Parkhill  Andrews  (both  soldiers  in  the  Civil 
War),  and  Mrs.  Snell,  alone  survive. 


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CHAPTER   V. 
THE    SECOND    PASTOR,   JOSEPH    P.    THOMPSON. 

It  was  the  middle  of  August,  1844,  when  Mr.  Andrews  was 
dismissed,  and  there  was  an  interim  of  eight  months  before 
the  installation  of  his  successor.  This  period  might  have  been 
a  most  trying  one.  Many  members  of  the  church  and  society 
were  tenderly  attached  to  Mr.  Andrews,  and  it  was  questioned 
whether  their  loyalty  to  the  Tabernacle  Church  would  bear  the 
strain  of  his  loss.  But  the  church  remained  united ;  few  left, 
and  additions  continued  at  each  communion  season.  The  pul- 
pit was  supplied  much  of  this  time  by  the  Rev.  John  S.  C. 
Abbott,  a  man  of  rare  Christian  character  and  literary  attain- 
ments, whose  pulpit  talks,  given  in  a  simple  conversational 
style,  always  interested  his  hearers. 

The  church  observed  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer  on  No- 
vember 28th,  and  on  December  10th  both  church  and  society 
met  to  elect  a  pastor. 

David  Hale  had  heard  of  a  young  minister  in  New  Haven, 
had  made  inquiries  concerning  him,  and  at  his  suggestion  Mr. 
Thompson  was  called  to  be  the  pastor  of  the  Tabernacle  Church. 
Fifty  votes  were  cast  by  the  church  members  present,  all  but 
one  (blank)  being  for  Mr.  Thompson.  The  society  concurred 
with  the  church  in  offering  a  salary  of  $2,000. 

Joseph  Parrish  Thompson,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Ann 
Thompson,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  August  7,  1819.  On 
his  father's  side  he  was  of  sturdy  New  England  stock.  His 
mother  descended  from  a  family  of  Covenanters  driven  to  the 
North  of  Ireland  from  Scotland  by  a  storm  of  persecution.  His 
earliest  ancestor  in  this  country,  John  Thompson,  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  in  Stratford,  Ct,  who  came  from  London  in 
1635.     Dr.  Thompson  himself  relates  the  well-preserved  family 

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tradition  that  this  pioneer  came  first  to  see  the  country  and 
then  went  back  to  England  in  order  to  settle  affairs  in  the  old 
home  and  remove  permanently  to  the  new.  While  journeying 
on  a  by-road  he  was  detained  by  a  farmer,  who  had  learned 
of  his  travels  in  the  New  World,  that  he  might  break  bread 
with  him  and  give  the  news.  The  traveller  told  his  strange 
tales  of  a  wild  land  full  of  savage  beasts  and  savage  men,  but 
added,  joyfully,  that  he  should  go  back,  nevertheless,  as  there 
he  could  serve  God  as  seemed  to  him  right.  At  that,  Mirable, 
one  of  the  farmer's  three  daughters,  cried  out,  "  Then  would 
I  were  there !  " 

"  But  could  you,"  asked  the  young  man,  "  for  the  sake  of 
Christ,  endure  the  trials  and  perils  of  that  far-off  coast  ?  " 

"  Yea,  gladly,  by  God's  help,"  replied  the  Puritan  maiden 
who,  not  long  before,  had  suffered  the  shame  of  the  pillory 
for  worshipping  with  Separatists.  When  John  Thompson  re- 
turned to  Stratford,  Mirable  came  also  as  his  wife.  The  line 
of  descent  from  him  was  Ambrose  (1652),  John  (1680),  John 
(1717),  William  (1742),  Joseph  (1769),  Isaac,  father  of 
Joseph  Parrish. 

William  Thompson  (1742)  was  a  lieutenant  under  General 
Wooster;   he  fell  at  Ridgefield,  Ct.,  April  27,  1777.* 

His  great  grandson,  Joseph  Parrish  Thompson,  graduated 
from  Yale  College  (1838)  and  began  theological  study  at  An- 
dover,  Mass.,  continuing  his  studies  in  the  Yale  Divinity 
School.  He  had  not  completed  his  second  year  of  theological 
study,  nor  had  he  attained  his  majority,  when  he  received  a 
call  to  Chapel  Street  Congregational  Church  (the  Church  of 
the  Redeemer),  in  New  Haven,  not  without  the  advice  of  his 
instructor,  Dr.  Taylor. 

"  He  delayed  a  written  answer  to  the  call  till  after  his  birthday  be- 
cause of  a  question  in  his  mind  whether  before  that  day  he  was  legally 
competent  to  bind  himself  by  a  contract  with  the  ecclesiastical  society. 
.  .  .  He  entered  upon  his  work  with  the  eager  enthusiasm  of  a 
gifted  boy  and  with  the  steady  strength  of  a  well-trained  man."  t 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  The  Sergeant's  Memorial,  1863,  p.  14. 
f  Leonard  Bacon,  D.D.,  New  York  Independent,  Sept.  25,  1879. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

He  won  a  large  place  in  the  hearts  of  his  people  and  of 
his  ministerial  brethren  in  the  city.  When  the  call  to  New 
York  came,  his  New  Haven  friends  protested  against  his  going ; 
and  well  they  might,  for  he  already  gave  promise  of  what  his 
multifarious  work  might  be. 

Mr.  Thompson's  form  was  slender,  his  smile  sunny,  his  face 
radiant.  His  eyes  sparkled  and  his  frequent  laugh  was  whole- 
some. He  was  quick  to  recognize  acquaintances  and  to  find 
out  the  strangers  in  his  congregation.  His  sermons  were  writ- 
ten, and  were  clear,  argumentative,  convincing,  giving  his 
hearers  food  for  future  thought.  He  instructed  rather  than 
aroused  his  hearers.  Yet  as  a  platform  speaker,  when  his  own 
feelings  were  moved,  he  rose  to  eloquence  and  awoke  the  en- 
thusiasm of  his  audience.  He  was  a  scholar  of  multiform 
interests,  with  ready  insight,  a  broad  outlook,  and  wise  judg- 
ment. Few  men  have  had  a  keener  scent  for  knowledge 
or  a  deeper  craving  for  omniscience.  For  a  student,  New 
Haven  was  an  ideal  residence.  But  Mr.  Thompson  had  been 
city  born  and  bred,  and  he  believed  heartily  in  the  common 
people  and  wished  to  work  for  them.  The  Tabernacle  Church 
had  at  that  time  three  hundred  and  twenty  members,  flourish- 
ing Sunday-schools  and  Bible  classes,  and  a  congregation  of 
2,000. 

Doubtless  the  general  scepticism  as  to  the  hopefulness  of 
Congregational  enterprises  west  of  New  England,  and  the  fear 
that,  since  Mr.  Hale  owned  the  Tabernacle,  it  might  prove  to 
be  a  one-man  church,  influenced  him  to  decline  the  invitation. 
Deacon  Pitts,  who  was  one  of  the  committee  to  present  it, 
wrote  an  urgent  letter  which  Dr.  Thompson  afterward  pub- 
lished.   In  it  he  said :  * 

"  I  know  of  no  field  of  ministerial  labor  more  inviting,  encouraging 
immediate  efforts  for  the  conversion  of  sinners.  There  are  already 
some  quite  serious  individuals,  with  one  case  of  distressing  conviction 
for  sin.  There  appears  an  unusual  readiness  on  the  part  of  the  im- 
penitent to  listen  attentively  to  personal  conversation  on  the  subject 
of  religion.  Our  dear  church  has  never  been  more  harmonious  than 
at  present,  and  greater  unanimity  in  making  the  call  for  you  to  become 
*  The  Good  Alan's  Memorial,  pp.  47-50. 

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our  shepherd  could  not  be  possible;  not  a  negative  vote  appeared  in 
the  church,  and  but  one  in  the  congregation,  and  that  by  mistake.  I 
consider  it  a  Macedonian  entreaty,  as  directly  emanating  from  the 
Great  Head  of  the  Church  as  the  one  sent  the  apostle. 

"  Our  church  commenced  with  earnest  prayer  accompanied  with  a 
day  of  fasting,  imploring  Divine  guidance  in  the  selection  of  the  right 
one  to  preside  statedly  over  our  interests.  As  an  individual,  my  exer- 
cises and  views  have  been  peculiar  when  before  the  mercy-seat  be- 
seeching our  Saviour  to  grant  the  favor  our  destitution  demands.  I 
have  most  devoutly  and  solemnly  pledged  myself  before  the  Searcher 
of  all  hearts,  to  sustain  you  with  more  than  ordinary  devotedness  to 
the  interests  of  a  pastor;  for  any  one  in  this  position  requires  more 
sympathy  and  prayer  than  is  often  felt  and  offered  for  pastors  of 
churches.  Could  I  see  you  and  unite  in  prayer  with  you  over  this 
subject,  it  would  greatly  relieve  my  burthened  soul.  ...  I  have 
made  myself  thus  prominent  in  this  communication  by  the  particular 
request  of  my  brethren. 

"  My  brother,  if  I  am  at  all  thought  of  in  making  up  your  final 
conclusion,  I  can  safely  assure  you  of  my  affections,  and  engage  with 
a  most  ready  mind  to  stand  by  you,  and  sympathize  with  you  in  all 
the  trials  and  conflicts  you  may  be  called  to  encounter.  For  it  is  a 
great  work  to  which  you  are  called — none  other  than  a  Nehemiah 
enterprise.  O  my  brother,  may  we  not  hope  that  the  God  of  Israel 
will  grant  a  Nehemiah's  victory  over  all  the  obstacles  which  may  be 
delaying  your  decision." 

Mr.  Hale  also  wrote  to  disabuse  his  mind  of  several  errone- 
ous views  he  entertained  as  to  the  position  of  church  and  con- 
gregation ;   for  himself  he  said : 

"  I  would  not  advise  any  man  to  attempt  to  live  with  me  as  my 
pastor  upon  the  plan  of  refusing  me  liberty  to  speak  in  the  meetings 
of  the  church,  or  any  other  brother;  nor  upon  the  plan  that  whatever 
he  proposes  must  be  law,  whether  it  be  wise  or  unwise.  But  I  think 
you  have  no  such  propensities ;  and  if  you  come  to  be  my  pastor  you 
may  defeat  my  plans  and  get  me  voted  down  as  often  as  you  please,  by 
fair  discussion,  and  you  shall  never  lose  my  affectionate  regard  on  that 
account.  But  my  impression  is  that  we  should  think  alike,  from  the 
beginning  of  the  year  to  its  end;  and,  certainly,  your  own  proper 
province  I  shall  always  be  glad  to  have  you  manage  to  suit  yourself, 
without  any  care  of  mine.  My  wish  is  that  our  glorious  Master  may 
be  honored,  and  his  gospel  proclaimed  by  every  tongue,  to  the  ends 
of  the  earth;  and  I  never  mean  to  act  from  any  motive  of  selfish  or 
personal  feeling."  * 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  p.  95. 

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The  urgency  of  this  call  so  pressed  upon  Mr.  Thompson 
that  he  was  led  to  reconsider  the  matter.  On  January  6,  1845, 
a  plan  of  subscription  for  pews  was  presented  at  a  society  meet- 
ing, the  subscriptions  to  be  payable  with  interest  within  five 
years,  twenty-five  per  cent,  to  be  paid  within  six  months,  on 
the  condition  that  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  be  bought  and  the 
title  owned  and  controlled  by  the  congregation.  Subscriptions 
were  so  prompt  and  generous  that,  after  a  half  hour,  it  was 
found  that  $11,060  had  been  subscribed.  Mr.  Hale  then  offered 
the  following  resolutions,  which  were  unanimously  adopted: 

"  Whereas,  The  Rev.  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  to  whom  a  call  has  been 
extended  by  the  church  and  congregation  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle, 
has  written  to  the  chairman  of  the  committee  presenting  the  case  as 
follows :  '  If  the  congregation  will  pledge  themselves  to  purchase  the 
house  within  six  months  or  some  short  and  definite  period,  and  will 
furnish  evidence  that  they  can  make  the  purchase  without  subjecting 
themselves  to  any  heavier  annual  burthen  (for  interest,  etc.)  than  they 
are  now  under — i.e.,  without  assuming  a  burthensome  debt — a  great 
objection  to  my  acceptance  of  the  call  will  be  removed.  This  would 
give  me  the  highest  confidence  in  the  present  strength  and  future  suc- 
cess of  the  enterprise.' 

"  And  whereas,  This  congregation  is  earnestly  desirous  to  meet  the 
wishes  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson  so  that  he  may  feel  confident  in 
accepting  the  call  presented  to  him,  and  believe  with  him  that  the  pur- 
chase of  the  house  is  a  consummation  greatly  to  be  desired,  and  have 
from  the  beginning  kept  this  consummation  constantly  in  view,  and 

"  Whereas,  By  an  effort  which  has  been  made  within  a  very  short 
period  it  is  evident  that  there  are  both  ability  and  disposition  in  the 
members  of  the  congregation  now  to  consummate  the  purchase  of  the 
house  and  without  contracting  any  debt  which  is  likely  ever  to  affect 
the  congregation  unfavorably,  but  will,  on  the  contrary,  place  its  pe- 
cuniary affairs  in  a  very  easy  position,  and 

"  Whereas,  The  arrangements  already  made  between  the  congregation 
and  the  proprietor  of  the  house  are  mutually  agreeable,  the  congregation, 
therefore,  feel  able,  disposed,  and  warranted  in  giving  to  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Thompson  the  pledge  suggested  by  him,  Therefore 

"  Resolved,  That  the  congregation  pledge  themselves  to  complete  the 
purchase  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  forthwith." 

The  following  resolution  was  also  adopted : 

"  Resolved,  That  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  church  and  congregation, 

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The  Second  Pastor,  Joseph  P.  Thompson 

being  assembled  together,  do  most  affectionately  and  earnestly  renew 
our  invitation  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson  to  become  our  pastor." 

Mr.  Hale  wrote  to  Mr.  Thompson : 

"  You  have  pointed  out  the  weak  spot  in  our  concerns.  I  have  not 
looked  on  the  matter  of  my  sole  ownership  as  a  sine  qua  non,  but  as  a 
malformation  which  would  be  corrected  in  due  time.  I  shall  be  most 
happy  if,  in  the  beginning  of  your  labors  among  us,  you  are  able  to 
bring  us  upon  a  right  basis.  The  members  of  the  congregation  re- 
sponded cheerfully  to  what  you  propose,  and  I  am  confident  that  the 
necessary  arrangements  will  be  made."  * 

The  terms  of  sale  were  made  very  easy  for  the  society  by 
Mr.  Hale.  About  $12,000,  raised  by  the  sale  of  pews,  was 
paid  to  Mr.  Hale.  This,  with  the  net  earnings  of  the  property 
during  the  nearly  five  years  that  he  had  owned  it,  reduced 
his  claim  to  about  $18,000,  which  was  arranged  by  a  mortgage 
running  eight  years,  the  interest  of  which  would  be  met  by 
rents  and  extra  use  of  the  house.  The  church  committee  re- 
ported at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  church,  February  25th: 

"  A  cause  for  great  mutual  congratulation  and  devout  gratitude  to 
God  is  afforded  us  in  view  of  the  transfer  of  our  place  of  worship  into 
the  hands  of  the  church  and  congregation,  and  the  committee  feel  that 
many  thanks  are  due  to  the  proprietor  for  the  magnanimous  liberality 
which  has  been  exercised  by  him  toward  the  church  to  this  auspicious 
consummation." 

This  was  evidently  heartfelt;  and  in  the  second  meeting 
for  securing  a  pastor,  March  nth,  when  the  invitation  to  Mr. 
Thompson  was  renewed,  one  grateful  parishioner  cast  his  vote 
for  Mr.  David  Hale. 

The  deed  of  conveyance  was  signed  and  executed  on  March 
4,  1845.  The  invitation  was  sent  once  more  to  Mr.  Thompson, 
and  the  reply  intimated  that  he  would  accept  the  call  when  dis- 
missed from  his  pastoral  connection  in  New  Haven.  The  letter 
of  acceptance,  written  April  1,  1845,  pays  a  beautiful  tribute 
to  his  New  Haven  church,  and  recounts  the  ties  that  bind  him 
there.     He  alludes  to  the  literary  associations  of  the  place,  to 

*  Manual  of  Broadway  Tabernacle  Churchy  1855,  p.  no. 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

his  favorite  plans  and  opportunities  for  personal  improvement, 
to  his  affectionate  and  beloved  people,  and  adds : 

"  My  past  ministry  has  been  an  uninterrupted  season  of  enjoyment ; 
my  life  as  a  pastor  inexpressibly  sweet;  I  will  not  affect  to  be  indif- 
ferent to  the  results  of  a  change  so  important  to  myself." 

In  this  letter  Mr.  Thompson  engaged  to  be  responsible  for 
the  care  of  but  two  services  upon  the  Sabbath,  and  stipulated 
for  four  or  five  Sundays  of  vacation.  In  the  Council  for  Instal- 
ment, which  was  called  for  April  15,  1845,  were  represented 
the  Yale  College,  First,  Howe  Street,  North,  and  Church 
Street  churches  of  New  Haven ;  the  Congregational  churches  in 
Salem,  Conn. ;  the  Carmine,  Allen,  and  Mercer  Streets  churches 
(Presbyterian)  of  New  York  City;  the  Fourth  Congregational 
Church,  New  York ;  the  Congregational  churches  in  Elizabeth- 
port  and  Jersey  City,  N.  J. ;  and  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims, 
Brooklyn.  The  Revs.  Messrs.  George  Shepherd,  of  Bangor, 
Me.;  John  S.  C.  Abbott  and  Milton  Badger,  D.D.,  of  New 
York,  were  also  invited.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  the 
pastor's  friend,  the  Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  of  New  Haven,  and 
the  Revs.  Messrs.  Samuel  Merwin  and  S.  W.  S.  Dutton,  also 
of  New  Haven,  and  the  Rev.  Edwin  Holt,  of  the  Carmine  Street 
Presbyterian  Church,  New  York,  took  part  in  the  services. 
Mr.  Thompson's  first  sermon,  the  following  Sunday,  was 
preached  from  the  text :   "  I  seek  not  yours,  but  you." 

Work  in  the  church  and  society  now  took  a  new  start. 
Money  had  been  appropriated,  and  some  raised,  for  repairs, 
carpets,  and  painting,  and  the  building  was  put  in  fresh  order. 
The  church  steward,  Deacon  Pitts,  was  now  called  upon  for 
more  labor  in  the  line  of  pastor's  helper  and  his  salary  raised 
to  $800,  while  Mr.  Hale  was  at  once  appointed  to  let  the  build- 
ing for  such  purposes  as  were  in  keeping  with  the  sentiments 
of  the  church,  thus  utilizing  his  financial  prudence  for  the 
benefit  of  the  society.  For  what  amounts  and  what  purposes 
the  building  was  rented  can  hardly  be  enumerated  here.  The 
trustees'  records,  during  the  first  years  of  the  church,  show 
that  when  the  audience-room  was  given  up  by  the  church  on 
the  Sunday  evening  preceding  anniversary  week  to  the  New 

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York  City  Bible  Society,  $50  was  received  for  its  use,  and  the 
American  and  Foreign  Anti-Slavery  Society  paid  $10  a  day 
for  the  lecture-room.  A  scientist,*  who  remembers  the  old  Tab- 
ernacle as  "  a  great  place  for  lectures,"  writes  of  courses  that 
were  delivered  there,  and  recalls  Dr.  Lardner  and  Fauvel- 
Gouraud,  who  was  one  of  the  earliest  writers  on  artificial  cul- 
tivation of  the  memory — "  Phreno-mnemotechny  "  the  method 
is  called  in  the  now  scarce  book  he  published  on  the  subject. 
Others  recall'  the  concerts,  vocal  and  instrumental,  given  there 
by  the  Hutchinson  family,  who  came  "  from  the  mountains  of 
the  old  Granite  State  "  to  sing  of  freedom ;  or  by  Dempsey, 
the  ballad  singer;  or  the  Philharmonic  Society,  the  leader  of 
whose  orchestra,  Mr.  Ensign,  was  himself  a  faithful  member, 
as  well  as  organist,  of  the  Tabernacle  Church;  and  the  tem- 
perance rallies,  when  Gough  moved  his  hearers  to  laughter 
or  to  tears;  and,  most  notable  of  all,  with  the  exception  of 
the  anniversaries,  the  great  anti-slavery  meetings.  Deacon 
William  B.  Holmes,  in  a  paper  read  at  the  Sixtieth  Anniversary 
of  the  church,  says  of  the  building : 

"  Located  just  where  the  tide  of  travel  was  the  thickest  (which  rarely 
extended  above  Broadway  at  Fourth  Street),  democratic  in  its  sim- 
plicity, there  was  no  place  in  the  city  (with  the  single  exception  of 
Castle  Garden)  so  well  suited  for  popular  assemblages;  and  to  it  the 
people  and  strangers  from  all  parts  of  the  country  flocked  on  every 
occasion.  It  was  a  veritable  '  Tribune  of  the  people,'  and  the  Cradle 
of  Congregationalism  in  New  York  City.  .  .  .  Besides  being  the 
meeting  place  whither  the  tribes  went  up  annually  to  attend  the  great 
May  Anniversaries — and  there  were  great  meetings  in  those  days — 
the  Tabernacle  was  the  forum  where  reformers  of  every  class  and 
advanced  thinkers  of  every  name  and  sex  held  forth,  and,  usually,  to 
large  audiences.  I  remember  to  have  heard  Wendell  Phillips,  William 
Lloyd  Garrison,  Lucretia  Mott,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  E.  P.  Whipple, 
Fred  Douglass,  Lucy  Stone,  Father  Gavazzi,  Elisha  Kent  Kane  and 
others  within  its  walls;  also  of  divines,  Charles  G.  Finney,  Horace 
Eushnell,  Professor  Edwards  A.  Park,  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher,  Henry  Ward 
Beecher  (on  slavery),  Richard  S.  Storrs,  President  Sturtevant  and 
Dr.  T.  M.  Post,  then  of  St.  Louis.  Louis  Kossuth,  the  Magyar  Patriot, 
here  met  with  an  enthusiastic  reception  from  a  large  audience.  These 
names  are  of  a  past  generation,  but  the  memories  which  the  names  of 
*  Professor  Wm.  P.  Blake,  University  of  Arizona. 

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these  intellectual  giants  of  earlier  days  recall,  are  sufficient  to  remind 
us  of  what  a  centre  of  influence  the  Old  Tabernacle  became,  whose 
lines  reached  out  through  all  the  earth.  The  affection  and  sentiment 
gathered  around  this  sacred  place  it  is  difficult  to  transfer  to  any  more 
modern  edifice.  What  Faneuil  Hall  was  to  Boston,  or  Exeter  Hall  to 
London  may  be  said  of  the  Old  Tabernacle  in  its  relation  to  New  York." 

It  is  not  surprising,  with  so  free  a  use  of  the  building,  that 
Mr.  Hale's  report,  July  16,  1846,  gave  an  excess  of  receipts 
for  rent  above  expenses,  for  the  year,  of  $2,754.66. 

The  young  minister's  first  important  work  after  settling  his 
household  and  getting  adjusted  to  new  duties  and  surroundings 
was  to  revise  the  church  manual.  At  a  business  meeting,  Oc- 
tober 28,  1845,  a  special  committee  of  seven  was  appointed  to 
take  the  subject  into  consideration — the  Rev.  Mr.  Thompson, 
Messrs.  John  C.  Cass,  William  C.  Gilman,  David  Hale,  Israel 
Minor,  Thomas  Ritter,  and  Henry  Whittlesey.  This  commit- 
tee reported  December  30th.  The  report  stated  that  in  order 
to  secure  the  confidence  of  New  England  churches  (still  dis- 
trustful of  Congregationalism  outside  of  their  own  geograph- 
ical boundaries)  the  Tabernacle  at  the  outset  adopted  the  Con- 
fession of  Faith  of  Park  Street  Church,  Boston.  This  was 
well  done,  and  had  won  the  confidence  of  sister  churches  in 
the  East.  The  articles,  however,  were  framed  during  the  Uni- 
tarian controversy,  to  emphasize  the  Trinitarian  attitude  of 
Park  Street  Church,  and  they  were  particularly  explicit  upon 
the  doctrines  of  the  trinity,  of  human  depravity,  and  divine 
sovereignty.  They  gave  a  partial  exhibition  of  the  plan  of 
salvation,  and  could  hardly  stand  as  the  interpretation  of  the 
Gospel  received  by  the  Tabernacle  Church.  The  committee  had 
endeavored,  at  first,  to  preserve,  as  far  as  possible,  the  original 
document ;  but,  failing  in  that  endeavor,  set  about  the  construc- 
tion of  an  entirely  new  creed.  After  having  been  carefully 
drafted  by  one  of  their  number  (presumably  Mr.  Thompson), 
it  was  discussed  by  the  committee,  evening  after  evening ; 
studied,  sentence  by  sentence ;  and,  at  last,  unanimously 
adopted.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  church,  February  24, 
1846,  the  articles  of  faith,  form  of  admission,  and  standing 

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rules,*  offered  by  the  committee  of  seven,  were  unanimously 
adopted,  but  for  one  negative  vote  as  to  the  articles. 

Another  change  made  at  this  meeting  is  recorded  in  the 
"History"  of  the  church  (1846).  Until  that  date  persons 
who  united  with  the  church  by  letter  were  required  to  come 
forward  publicly  and  make  a  profession  of  faith  as  if  they  had 
never  before  done  so.  A  large  proportion  of  those  added  to 
the  Tabernacle  Church  brought  letters  from  New  England 
churches,  where  such  a  practice  had  not  prevailed,  and  it  ap- 
peared to  them  an  unnecessary  innovation.  As  there  seemed 
to  be  no  warrant  for  the  proceeding,  either  in  the  constitution 
of  the  church  or  the  exigencies  of  the  case,  the  church  voted, 
by  a  large  majority,  to  abolish  the  custom. 

The  order  of  the  church  services  in  the  old  Tabernacle,  under 
Dr.  Thompson,  is  given  as  follows :  f  Sunday-school  in  the 
forenoon,  followed  by  the  usual  morning  service ;  after  a  short 
intermission,  Sunday-school  again ;  regular  afternoon  service 
with  preaching,  and  the  pastor  conducted  the  evening  service. 
It  will  be  remembered  that  Mr.  Thompson,  by  the  terms  of  his 
settlement,  was  excused  from  conducting  the  afternoon  meet- 
ing. 

On  Friday  evening  there  was  a  lecture  by  the  pastor. 

One  who  was  a  Sunday-school  scholar  in  those  days  writes :  J 

"  We  had  two  sessions  of  the  school  in  those  days  and  some  of  us 
who  lived  more  than  a  mile  away  carried  our  dinner  and  remained  for 
the  second  session,  coming  away  before  the  afternoon  service.  I  think 
Mr.  Thompson  rarely  preached  in  the  afternoon,  and  the  attendance 
was  probably  small.  But  the  evening  congregation  was  large,  many 
strangers,  many  young  men.  On  a  rare  occasion,  I  was  present  one 
evening  to  hear  his  sermon  on  the  Gospel  Supper.  I  remember  good 
Deacon  Pitts,  and  his  kindly,  fatherly  way  when  he  came  to  talk  with 
me  about  uniting  with  the  church.  The  communion  followed  the  morn- 
ing service  and  I  recall  the  impression  made,  before  I  ever  partook 
of  it,  by  Mr.  Thompson's  words,  at  such  a  service,  in  regard  to  the  love 
of  Christ, — almost  his  tones  as  he  said  '  I  cannot  tell  you  all  it  means.'  " 

*  Appendix  E. 

f  Deacon  Charles  Whittemore.     Paper  read  at  Sixtieth  Anniversary. 

X  Miss  Emily  S.  Gilman. 

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"  The  weekly  prayer-meeting  was  held  in  the  basement  of  the  church, 
and  it  was  the  custom  of  the  pastor  to  have  the  brethren  alternate  as 
leaders  with  a  view  to  the  exercise  of  their  spiritual  graces,  he  himself 
reserving  his  share  until  the  close  of  the  meeting."  * 

We  can,  in  spirit,  be  present  at  one  of  those  prayer-meet- 
ings where  Deacon  Pitts  met  God,  face  to  face,  and  to  which 
Mr.  Hale  would  often  come  direct  from  the  office  without  his 
evening  meal,  rejoicing  in  such  a  relief  from  temporal  cares. 
It  is  his  turn,  to-night,  to  lead  the  meeting.  He  enters  hur- 
riedly and  takes  his  seat,  saying  that  he  has  been  so  busy  all 
day  that  he  has  had  no  time  for  preparation,  not  even  to  select 
a  hymn.  "  But  here  is  one  that  ought  to  put  us  in  a  right 
frame."  Then  he  reads  Montgomery's  wonderful  forecast  of 
heaven,  "  Forever  with  the  Lord ! "  and,  as  he  reads,  his  soul 
kindles.  "  Yes,  brethren,  '  Forever  with  the  Lord ! '  No  cares, 
no  vexations,  no  hurry,  no  business,  nothing  to  draw  off  our 
minds  from  Christ.  What  a  blessed  relief  after  being  pent 
up  so  long  in  this  poor  body."  Another  evening  we  might  hear 
Alexander  Pirie's  joyful  hymn  sound  out  in  loud  acclaim  (for 
they  sang  with  a  will  in  those  days,  and  many  of  the  volunteer 
choir  of  forty  were  church  members  who  would  be  present 
at  the  meeting).    They  sang  these  words: 

"  Come  let  us  join  in  songs  of  praise 
To  our  ascended  Priest; 
He  entered  heaven  with  all  our  names 
Engraven  on  his  breast." 

and  Mr.  Hale  stood  up  and  said: 

"  Brethren,  let  us  look  a  little  at  the  sentiment  of  this  hymn.  Is  it 
true?  Have  we  thought  what  it  means?  Has  Christ  entered  heaven 
with  all  our  names  engraven  on  his  breast?  Is  David  Hale  written 
there?  Is  ,  and  written  there?  Does  Christ  know  us  indi- 
vidually, and  present  us  to  his  Father,  name  by  name?  "  t 

The  effect  was  overpowering,  and  many  disciples  present 
realized  their  union  with  Christ  as  never  before. 

In  1846  there  were  large  accessions  to  the  church,  eighty-six 

*  Deacon  William  B.  Holmes.     Paper  read  at  Sixtieth  Anniversary. 
f  J.  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  pp.  127,  128. 

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in  all,  the  number  of  those  received  by  certificate  being  less 
by  fourteen  than  those  who  made  profession  of  their  faith. 
This  was  the  first  year  in  which  the  Sunday  afternoon  services 
were  dropped  during  the  summer  months,  and  that  the  change 
did  not  give  general  satisfaction  is  evident  from  the  fact  that 
for  several  following  years  the  church  voted  to  keep  up  the 
afternoon  service  throughout  the  summer.  The  fund  for  the 
poor  was  probably  established  this  year,  when  Deacon  Israel 
Minor  was  made  its  treasurer. 

In  November  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed  in  connec- 
tion with  the  trustees  to  inquire  whether  and  in  what  way  a 
permanent  entrance  could  be  secured  to  the  Tabernacle  from 
Broadway.  The  committee  was  authorized  to  make  such  pur- 
chases or  other  arrangement  as  they  might  deem  judicious  and 
desirable  for  that  purpose.  This  entrance  was  not  secured 
immediately,  and  it  seems  that  the  pastor's  practical  common- 
sense  finally  found  means  to  accomplish  the  purpose,  for,  in 
his  farewell  address,  in  1871,  he  says  that  by  making  the  pur- 
chase of  the  old  Tabernacle  by  the  society  a  condition  of 
accepting  their  call,  and,  afterward,  by  suggesting  a  plan  for 
the  purchase  of  the  Broadway  entrance  to  the  building,  it  was 
his  good  fortune  to  contribute  in  some  measure  toward  the 
corporate  strength  which  paved  the  way  to  the  material  pros- 
perity of  the  society  at  that  date.  By  this  arrangement,  in 
March,  1851,  Mr.  Israel  Minor,  deacon  and  trustee  of  the 
society  for  many  years,  secured  for  the  society  a  house  and  lot 
known  as  340  Broadway,  at  $20,250,  and  received  from  the 
Board  of  Trustees  a  special  vote  of  thanks  for  his  energy  and 
tact  in  making  the  negotiations,  and  for  the  many  pecuniary 
sacrifices  he  had  made  for  the  interests  of  the  church.  The 
thanks  of  the  Tabernacle  society  were  also  presented  to  Mr. 
B.  Blanco  at  the  annual  meeting,  November,  1851,  for  the 
generous  aid  afforded  by  his  counsel,  personal  efforts,  and 
money  in  paying  off  the  mortgages  which  had  been  cancelled 
during  the  year. 

One  notable  feature  of  the  Tabernacle  Church  was  the  num- 
ber of  men  who  were  attracted  to  its  services.     The  situation 

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of  the  building  made  it  easily  accessible  to  strangers  in  the 
large  hotels  of  the  city.  Mr.  Andrews  said  that  every  public 
service,  on  Sunday,  was  a  sort  of  special  occasion  where  per- 
haps hundreds  were  present  for  the  first  time.  The  church 
was  conveniently  placed  for  young  men  living  near  their  places 
of  business;  and  besides  this,  the  themes  that  Dr.  Thompson 
discussed,  the  breadth,  virility,  and  freshness  of  his  thought, 
made  his  church  peculiarly  attractive  to  men  of  intelligence, 
and  it  became  under  him  what  it  has  continued  to  be.,  pre- 
eminently, a  church  for  men.  Instead  of  having  the  larger 
proportion  of  its  members  women,  as  is  too  often  the  case, 
from  1846  to  1856  there  were  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  men 
and  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  women  added  to  its  mem- 
bership. 

Strongly  backed  and  encouraged  by  Mr.  Hale,  Dr.  Thomp- 
son made  the  church  a  denominational  power.  New  Congre- 
gational churches  were  springing  into  life  on  all  sides,  and 
under  its  pastor's  wise  guidance,  the  Tabernacle  Church  was 
always  ready  with  encouragement,  support,  and  such  pecuniary 
aid  as  it  could  afford.  Delegates,  when  appointed  to  councils 
by  whose  advice  new  churches  were  to  be  founded,  were  some- 
times given  discretionary  power  to  pledge  such  sums  of  money 
as  might  seem  best  in  aid  of  the  new  enterprise,  and  these 
pledges,  when  reported  to  the  church,  were  made  good.  The 
church,  it  is  true,  did  not  colonize.  Many  futile  attempts  had 
been  made  in  New  York  to  establish  Congregational  churches, 
and  Dr.  Thompson  no  doubt  thought  it  wiser  to  hold  together 
one  strong  church  that  could  aid  others,  than  to  deplete  its 
membership  in  order  to  infuse  life  into  feeble  congregations 
that  might  even  then  be  unable  to  help  themselves.  In  1857  Dr. 
Thompson  enumerated  the  following  Congregational  churches, 
then  in  existence,  that  had  been  formed  since  the  organization 
of  the  Tabernacle.  In  New  York:  Church  of  the  Puritans, 
Eastern  Congregational  Church,  Twentieth  Street  Congrega- 
tional Church,  Bethesda  (colored),  Smyrna  (Welsh).  In 
Brooklyn :  Church  of  the  Pilgrims,  Plymouth  Church,  Clinton 
Avenue    Church,    South    Congregational    Church,    Bedford 

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Church,  Elm  Place  Church,  Park  Congregational  Church,  War- 
ren Street  Mission  Church,  New  England  Church,  Central  Con- 
gregational Church,  Williamsburg  Church.  Toward  the  estab- 
lishment of  most  of  these  and  other  Congregational  churches, 
East  and  West,  Mr.  Hale  contributed  personally  large  sums 
ranging  from  a  few  hundreds  to  two  or  three  thousand  dollars, 
besides  supporting  a  missionary  who  travelled  through  Western 
New  York  and  another  in  Michigan  looking  after  the  interests 
of  feeble  Congregational  churches.  "  He  gave  away  thousands 
annually,"  says  Dr.  Thompson,  "  to  promote  various  objects  of 
Christian  benevolence,  but  turned  his  contributions  in  the  later 
years  of  his  life  very  much  into  the  channel  of  Congregational 
enterprises."  *  The  establishment  of  a  Congregational  church 
in  Detroit  was  due  to  his  influence  and  aid. 

In  July,  1846,  a  Congregational  convention  was  held  in 
Michigan  City,  Ind.,  called  by  the  general  association  of 
Michigan  which  had  been  formed  four  years  before,  and  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle  Church,  with  some  other  Eastern 
churches,  was  invited  to  be  present  by  delegate.  David  Hale 
was  appointed  to  this  service,  and  his  strong  convictions,  wise 
judgment,  dignified  self-control,  and  absolute  fairness  in  de- 
bate had  sufficient  force  to  swing  the  convention  around  from 
a  half-way  tolerance  of  the  "  Plan  of  Union,"  which  some  still 
wished  should,  in  a  modified  form,  continue  operative  between 
the  New  School  Presbyterians  and  the  Congregationalists  in 
the  West,  to  an  absolute  repudiation  of  any  attempt  to  hold 
the  two  denominations  in  the  presbytery  or  synod.  A  promi- 
nent member  of  that  body  says: 

"  But  for  him,  that  convention  would,  I  think,  have  adjourned  with- 
out taking  that  decided  action  against  the  '  Plan  of  Union '  which  has 
so  essentially  benefited  the  denomination  at  the  West,  and  which  has 
since  been  endorsed  at  the  East.  The  committee  appointed  to  report 
on  that  subject  recommended  only  a  modification  of  the  Plan,  and  ex- 
erted themselves  to  procure  the  adoption  of  their  report.  Mr.  Hale 
took  the  lead  in  opposing  the  modification  and  boldly  maintained  that 
the  Plan  should  be  abrogated.  At  first  his  views  seemed  ultra  to  many 
of  us.  We  were  not  prepared  to  go  so  far.  But  his  quick  discernment 
♦Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  p.  118. 

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and  ready  wit,  his  strong  arguments  and  apposite  illustrations,  were 
too  much  for  the  committee  (of  whom  I  was  one  and  contended  for 
a  modification),  and  the  brethren  were  led  almost  unanimously  into 
his  view  before  we  separated.  He  was  added  to  the  committee,  and 
wrote  the  latter  part  of  the  report,  which  was  finally  adopted  unani- 
mously. ...  So  rapidly  did  the  influence  of  Mr.  Hale  increase 
toward  the  close  of  the  convention,  that  one  of  the  officers  remarked 
to  me,  '  If  the  convention  had  continued  two  days  longer,  Mr.  Hale 
would  have  had  the  whole  control  of  it.'  "  * 

Thus  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  was  made  a  strong 
power  to  support  and  strengthen  Congregationalism  in  the 
West.  The  very  fact  that  such  a  convention  had  been  held 
at  the  call  of  the  Michigan  association  awakened  much  inter- 
est in  the  East.  Its  action  was  commended  by  a  number  of 
well-known  conservative  New  England  ministers,  and  sharply 
criticised  by  New  School  Presbyterians  who  wished  to  retain 
their  hold  of  Congregationalists  in  the  West.  Congregation- 
alism was  discussed  more  and  more,  both  East  and  West,  and 
the  Tabernacle,  a  now  flourishing  church,  well  established  on 
middle  ground  between  New  England  and  the  Western  States, 
was  guided  so  wisely  as  to  hold  the  confidence  of  the  East 
and  the  sympathy  of  the  West.  Dr.  Thompson  himself  claims 
that  "  this  church  (and  the  movement  of  which  it  was  the 
nucleus)  was  the  medium  of  fusing  the  old  and  the  new,  and 
of  bringing  the  churches  East  and  West  to  a  consciousness  of 
national  life."  f 

Dr.  Thompson,  who  was  at  his  best  whenever  he  had  a 
cause  to  defend  or  promote,  labored  with  unremitting  energy 
for  the  independence  of  Congregational  churches  from  Presby- 
terian entanglement.  In  a  report  unanimously  adopted  by  the 
State  General  Association,  in  1848,  he  exposed  the  unequal 
and  injurious  workings  of  the  "  Plan  of  Union  "  and  moved  its 
discontinuance,  following  the  path  blazed  by  the  Michigan 
conference ;  doing  this,  he  says,  "  for  peace  with  a  sister 
denomination  as  well  as  for  progress  of  our  own."  %     As  chair- 

*  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Memoir  of  David  Hale,  p.  124. 

\  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  :  Its  History  and  Work,  pp.  35,  36. 

%  Ibid.,  p.  36. 

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man  of  a  committee  appointed  by  the  same  association  he  pre- 
pared the  call  and  constructed  the  plan  for  the  great  Albany 
convention  of  1852,  the  first  synodical  Congregational  gather- 
ing that  fairly  represented  the  whole  denomination  since  the 
Cambridge  Synod  of  1646-48.  Four  hundred  and  sixty  min- 
isters and  delegates  from  seventeen  States  convened  at  this 
call,  including  the  leaders  of  Congregationalism  East  and 
West.  Five  hundred  copies  of  the  report  of  the  Michigan 
City  convention  were  distributed  among  the  members  of  the 
Albany  convention,  and  the  Rev.  Parsons  Cooke,  of  the 
Puritan  Recorder,  wrote  (October  2,  1852) : 

"  In  looking  over  the  report  of  that  Convention  [Michigan  City] 
which  we  made  and  published  at  the  time,  we  have  been  struck  by  the 
remarkable  fact  that  most  of  the  important  measures  passed  at  this 
Albany  Convention  were  substantially  the  same  as  those  which  had 
been  passed  six  years  before  by  the  Convention  at  Michigan  City." 

Thus  the  pastor  worked  on  the  same  lines  that  had  been 
marked  out  by  his  parishioners  in  1836.  In  their  devotion  to 
the  interests  of  their  own  church  polity  they  were  at  one.  By 
the  Albany  convention  the  unity  of  Congregationalism  was 
at  last  made  evident. 

Next  to  its  repudiation  of  the  "  Plan  of  Union  "  the  most 
valuable  work  for  the  denomination  done  at  this  convention 
was  the  approving  of  the  movement,  begun  and  urged  by 
Henry  C.  Bowen,  and  the  appointing  of  a  committee,  to  raise 
$50,000  for  the  building  of  church  edifices  in  the  West.  The 
Tabernacle  Church  encouraged  this  work  by  a  volunteer  com- 
mittee to  solicit  donations  to  the  fund.  The  sum  raised  for 
church  building  purposes  exceeded  the  amount  proposed  by 
more  than  $12,000,  and  the  effort  resulted  in  the  formation  of 
the  American  Congregational  Union  in  the  old  Tabernacle. 
The  next  year,  of  its  thirteen  trustees,  five  were  Tabernacle 
men.  The  trustees  of  this  Union,  twelve  years  later,  called  the 
various  State  committees  to  meet,  in  the  present  church  build- 
ing, as  a  conference  preliminary  to  convening  the  first  National 
Council.  At  this  Council,  held  in  Boston,  Dr.  Thompson  was 
appointed  first  of  the  two  assistant  moderators  and  chairman 

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of  the  Committee  on  Declaration  of  Faith,  besides  serving  on 
another  important  committee,  and  again,  in  1870,  the  national 
delegation  met  in  the  Tabernacle  to  plan  for  the  Jubilee  of 
the  Pilgrims.  That  meeting  recommended  among  other 
memorial  services,  the  holding  of  a  Pilgrim  Memorial  Con- 
vention at  Chicago,  111.,  April  27,  1870,  and  there  the  move- 
ment began  that  resulted  in  the  organization  of  the  National 
Council.  In  view  of  the  national  influence  exerted  by  the 
Tabernacle  Church  it  was  in  no  idle  spirit  of  boastfulness  that 
Dr.  Thompson  exclaimed  in  his  farewell  sermon: 

"  May  this  church  never  become  so  absorbed  in  caring  for  its  own 
affairs  as  to  recede  from  that  position  of  national  preferment,  in  re- 
spect of  the  principles  and  the  progress  of  its  own  communion,  to  which 
it  has  attained  by  fidelity  in  upholding  and  by  generosity  in  giving." 

Still  another  important  contribution  by  Dr.  Thompson  to  the 
cause  of  Congregationalism  was  the  inception  and  successful 
establishment  of  a  denominational  journal  in  New  York  City. 
In  planning  for  a  Congregational  newspaper  in  New  York, 
Mr.  Thompson  had  no  thought  of  any  editorial  connection 
with  it  himself.  Messrs.  Hunt,  Bowen,  and  McNamee,  and 
S.  B.  Chittenden  were  warmly  interested  in  the  project  and 
stood  ready  to  furnish  the  requisite  capital,  while  Mr.  Thomp- 
son set  out  to  find  a  New  England  editor.  Failing  in  this,  he 
endeavored  to  induce  Dr.  Leonard  Bacon  to  give  up  his  New 
Haven  church  for  the  editorial  chair.  Mr.  Hale  was  eagerly 
interested  in  the  enterprise.  He  offered  to  subscribe  $1,000 
toward  a  capital  of  $10,000  to  start  the  paper,  and  was  ready 
to  become  its  business  editor,  either  personally  or  through  his 
son,  Mr.  Richard  Hale,  with  the  understanding  that  Dr.  Bacon 
should  have  entire  editorial  control.  But  in  June,  1848,  Mr. 
Hale  was  stricken  with  apoplexy,  and  died  about  six  months 
later,  and  as  for  Dr.  Bacon,  he  could  not  be  persuaded  to 
resign  his  pastorate.  Still  Mr.  Thompson  kept  his  project  in 
mind,  and  one  evening  Mr.  Seth  W.  Benedict,  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Tabernacle  Church,  while  calling  upon  his  pastor, 
chanced  to  remark,  "  If  you  wish  to  see  a  Congregational 

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paper  in  New  York  you  must  start  it  yourself  and  I  will  help 
you."  Thus  encouraged,  Dr.  Thompson  set  out  the  next  morn- 
ing for  New  Haven  to  consult  Dr.  Bacon;  and  the  two  re- 
turned together  to  enlist  Rev.  R.  S.  Storrs,  Jr.,  of  Brooklyn. 
Capital  was  at  once  furnished  according  to  agreement;  Rev. 
Joshua  Leavitt,  whose  long  experience  on  The  Evangelist  had 
well  fitted  him  for  the  post,  was  engaged  as  office  editor ;  Mr. 
Benedict  was  secured  as  publisher;  the  name  and  policy  of 
the  paper  were  decided  on;  and,  a  fortnight  afterward,  on 
the  morning  of  December  7,  1848,  the  four  editors  and  five 
proprietors  were  all  invited  by  Mr.  Benedict,  the  publisher,  to 
meet  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  press-room,  in  a  small  dark  base- 
ment. Dr.  Thompson  arrived  first;  and,  having  determined 
to  secure  the  first  copy  of  the  paper,  placed  himself  nearest 
the  press,  holding  his  position  resolutely  against  all  later 
comers.  At  last  Mr.  Benedict  said :  "  Gentlemen,  editors, 
proprietors  of  The  Independent,  are  you  still  ready  ?  "  The  in- 
stant echo  came :  "  All  ready !  "  Mr.  Benedict  shouted  to 
the  engineer,  "  Start  the  press !  "  and  Mr.  Thompson  seized 
triumphantly  the  first  copy  of  the  first  issue  of  the  paper 
which  for  fourteen  years  this  triumvirate  of  ministers  edited 
with  surprising  success.* 

In  their  salutatory  the  editors  said: 

"  There  has  been  growing  up  in  this  metropolis,  in  this  State,  in  the 
great  and  free  North-West,  a  body  of  churches  whose  organization  is 
founded  on  the  great  New  England  principle  of  Congregational  Inde- 
pendence. Multitudes  of  intelligent  Christian  men  who  are  not  in  these 
churches  are  in  sympathy  with  them,  and  are  looking  for  some  popular 
exposition  of  current  ecclesiastical  and  religious  questions,  and  of  all 
the  progress  of  our  times  as  seen  from  the  position  of  that  great  prin- 
ciple. .  .  .  Our  hope  is  to  make  such  a  newspaper  as  every  intelli- 
gent and  large-hearted  pastor  will  welcome  to  his  own  family  and  to 
the  families  of  his  flock.  We  hope  that  our  labor  as  editors  of  a  re- 
ligious journal — a  labor  which  requires  us  to  regard  with  habitual 
attention  all  the  great  interests  of  the  church  and  of  humanity — will 
better  qualify  us  for  our  work  as  pastors  whether  in  the  pulpit  or  from 
house  to  house.  At  the  same  time  we  also  hope  that  our  relation  as 
pastors,  constantly  employed  in  the  pastoral  work,  and  holding  constant 
*  Henry  C.  Bowen,  The  Independent,  December  6,  i883. 
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intercourse  with  other  pastors,  and  with  the  churches,  will  enable  us, 
in  some  respects,  to  make  a  better  newspaper  than  if  we  had  retired 
from  the  pastoral  office  or  had  never  known  its  duties  and  its  sympa- 
thies. We  hope  to  pay  our  weekly  visits  in  this  way  to  thousands  of 
families,  spreading  before  them  the  changing  map  of  the  Church  and 
of  the  world ;  teaching,  exhorting,  warning  all ;  enriching  each  reader's 
mind  with  facts  and  principles,  touching  the  springs  of  Christian  affec- 
tion and  devotion,  and  aiding  and  cheering  all  the  while  the  labor  of 
the  living  ministry  in  a  thousand  homes. 

[Signed]  Leonard  Bacon, 

Joseph  P.  Thompson, 
Richard  S.  Storrs,  Jr." 

It  must  have  been  of  no  small  advantage  to  these  city  clergy- 
men to  be  able  to  follow  up  and  drive  home  their  Sunday 
utterances  by  ringing  mid-week  editorials. 

In  its  issue  of  December  2,  1869,  the  twenty-first  anni- 
versary of  The  Independent's  birth,  a  reminiscent  editorial  re- 
calls the  office  at  "  number  22  Beekman  Street,  into  which  every 
day  at  two  o'clock  stepped  the  brisk,  smiling,  and  industrious 
Dr.  Thompson;  into  which  about  once  a  fortnight  came  the 
venerable  head  of  Dr.  Bacon,  and  into  which,  about  twice  a 
year,  moved  the  eloquent  step  of  Dr.  Storrs, 

'  Whose  very  foot  had  music  in't 
As  he  came  up  the  stairs.'  " 

The  writer  hinted  that  the  rarity  of  Dr.  Storrs's  visits 
might  be  due  to  fear  of  the  printer,  sorely  tried  by  his  much- 
corrected  proofs.    As  to  the  other  editors,  he  said : 

"  Dr.  Thompson  rarely  and  Dr.  Bacon  never  made  an  alteration.  The 
exact  measure  of  their  fame  among  our  readers  we  cannot  gauge,  but 
among  our  printers  their  memory  is  without  a  stain  of  reproach  to 
this  day." 

Of  the  three  editors  Dr.  Thompson  was  the  most  active  and 
responsible — "  by  far  the  most  efficient,"  says  Dr.  Bacon : 

"  Week  after  week,  year  after  year  (extraordinary  absences  ex- 
cepted), every  column  of  every  issue  was  inspected  by  him  for  its  last 
corrections,  before  going  to  the  press.  The  experienced  sagacity  of  Dr. 
Leavitt,  as  well  as  his  great  editorial  skill,  was  invaluable;    but  to  the 

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youthful  enthusiasm  of  Dr.  Thompson,  to  his  indefatigable  diligence, 
and  to  his  marvellous  rapidity  of  thought  and  pen,  more  than  to  what 
could  be  done  by  either  of  his  colleagues  in  the  responsible  editorship, 
the  new  journal  was  indebted  for  its  rapid  and  continued  success."  * 

Dr.  Thompson  spent,  as  a  rule,  an  hour  at  the  office  daily, 
meeting  the  others  for  conference  on  Monday  morning,  and 
planning,  together,  their  editorial  work.  Dr.  Bacon  says  of 
the  editors'  design  in  starting  The  Independent: 

"  It  was  not  so  much  his  ambition  and  theirs  to  advance  their  sect, 
as  it  was  to  put  an  ignorant  reluctant  Church  right  before  the  world. 
It  was  the  day  when  reform,  in  despair  of  the  support  which  the  Church 
ought  to  have  given  it,  was  ready  to  throw  itself  into  the  arms  of  un- 
belief. Dr.  Thompson  was  one  of  the  men  who  saw  the  exigency,  and 
in  his  early  youth  declared  that  slavery  must  perish  because  it  was 
not  only  an  offence  against  the  rights  of  man  but  a  crime  against  the 
law  of  God  and  the  brotherhood  of  the  Church  of  Christ.  It  was  that 
he  might  teach  the  Church  morality,  that  he  might  make  it  aggressive 
against  sin,  that  he  took  a  foremost  part  in  conducting  The  Inde- 
pendent." t 

Dr.  Storrs,  forty  years  afterward,  in  writing  of  those  early 
days,  compares  himself  and  Dr.  Thompson  to  "  two  emulous 
novices,  in  maiden  armor  "  cantering  "  with  gay  audacity  into 
the  lists  by  the  side  of  the  tough  and  experienced  knights, 
as  if  it  were  all  to  be  a  festive  holiday  game  and  there  were 
never  to  be  hard  or  sharp  blows  given  or  taken."  %  The  first 
number  of  the  paper  was  issued  without  a  single  pledged  sub- 
scriber. In  seven  years  its  weekly  edition  was  15,000.  Soon 
after  the  paper  was  established,  Dr.  Bacon,  the  senior  editor, 
went  abroad  for  a  year  or  more ;  Dr.  Leavitt,  the  experienced 
journalist,  confined  his  labors,  according  to  the  arranged  pro- 
gramme, to  office  work  and  the  news  department,  and  these 
two  young  ministers  had  to  bear  the  brunt  of  many  an  excit- 
ing controversy  in  the  cause  of  freedom.  Important  among 
these  was  their  brave  opposition  to  the  Tract  Society  on  the 
matter  of  its  pledged  and  offensive  silence  about  slavery  and 
its  insufficient  financial  reports,  and  their  contention  that  Dr. 

*  The  Independent,  October  2,  1879.  \  Ibid.,  September  25,  1879. 

\Ibid.,  December  6,  1888. 

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Bushnell  should  have  liberty  of  speech  whether  his  opinions 
suited  them  or  not — a  stand  which  was  bold   enough  then, 
though  now  it  seems  the  merest  truism. 
Dr.  Storrs  goes  on  to  say: 

"  Then  came  the  Fugitive  Slave  law,  and  the  Union-Saving  craze 
which  followed ;  and  while  Dr.  Bacon  was  off  in  Persia,  with  his  life 
in  peril  among  the  Koords,  all  the  beasts  of  Ephesus  seemed  suddenly 
to  have  sighted  or  snuffed  their  opportunity,  and  to  be  combined  in 
one  passionate  onset  against  The  Independent  proprietors,  editors,  as- 
sistant editor,  and  the  paper  itself. 

"  The  spirit  of  blithe  and  adventurous  nonchalance  with  which  we 
had  begun  our  work  had  been  by  that  time  a  good  deal  sobered.  We 
recognized  fully  at  the  office  the  gravity  of  the  crisis,  and  its  severity. 
But  we  certainly  were  not  frightened :  and  I  do  not  think  that  we 
ever  gave  back,  by  a  foot-breadth,  from  the  front-line  of  our  persistent 
opposition  to  slavery,  or  of  our  endeavor  to  rally  and  hold  the  Chris- 
tian people  of  our  country  in  determined  antagonism  to  it.  The  Castle 
Garden  frenzy  seemed,  for  the  moment,  to  carry  all  before  it,  but  I 
know  from  distinguished  individual  testimonies,  some  of  which  I  still 
have,  that  our  work  at  the  time  was  not  without  its  important  effects ; 
and  the  development  of  the  great  party  which  first  took  organic  form 
in  1856,  and  which  has  now  for  the  seventh  time  been  intrusted  with 
the  conduct  of  national  affairs,  was  certainly  due,  in  a  measure  at  least, 
to  the  influence  of  the  paper  at  that  angry  and  clamorous  crisis,  and 
in  following  years.  The  minds  and  consciences  of  ministers  and  church 
members,  throughout  the  range  of  our  widening  circulation,  were  fully 
prepared  for  the  happy  consummation  when  it  came."  * 

*  The  Fortieth  Anniversary.      The  Independent,  December  6,  18S8. 


CHAPTER   VI. 
FROM   THE   OLD   TO   THE   NEW   TABERNACLE. 

A  number  of  important  church  and  parish  matters  came  up 
for  settlement  between  the  years  1846  and  1856.  The  ques- 
tion of  absentees  would  naturally  arise  when  the  trend  of 
population  turned  from  the  vicinity  of  the  church  toward  the 
uptown  districts,  and  the  congregation  became  more  and  more 
a  shifting  one.  The  matter  was  first  brought  up  by  Mr.  Hale 
in  1847,  and,  after  some  months,  a  working  plan  was  accepted. 
The  rules,  as  published  in  the  church  manual  (1855),  were 
adopted  May  13,  1851,  when  a  list  of  absentees  was  ordered 
made,  and  April  26,  1853 ;  *  and  certain  principles  of  discipline 
embraced  in  the  report  of  a  special  committee  were  adopted 
June  29,  1852.1  This  report  recommended  the  appointment, 
from  time  to  time,  of  committees  of  inquiry  upon  the  cases 
of  absentees  or  of  members  who,  though  residing  in  the  neigh- 
borhood, were  supposed  to  be  living  in  neglect  of  covenant 
vows ;  stress  being  laid  on  the  fact  that  these  committees  were 
not  inquisitorial,  but  were  appointed  solely  to  procure  informa- 
tion in  regard  to  the  residence  and  church  connection  of  de- 
linquent or  absent  members. 

There  had  been  already,  as  was  but  natural  in  so  large  a 
church,  a  number  of  cases  of  discipline,  one  of  the  most  pain- 
ful being  that  of  a  deacon  of  the  church  against  whom  charges 
of  dishonesty  were  brought  in  1847.  After  being  admonished 
for  the  same  cause  and  for  drunkenness,  he  was  first  sus- 
pended, and,  at  last,  January  3,  1850,  excommunicated.  One 
woman  also  was  suspended  in  1847  "  f°r  supporting  herself 
and  family  by  appearing  on  a  theatre's  stage." 

In  June,  1848,  an  attack  of  apoplexy  warned  Mr.  Hale  to 
*  Appendix  F.  f  Manual,  1873. 

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settle  his  temporal  affairs  as  speedily  as  possible,  and  the 
trustees  responded  to  his  request  that  he  should  be  relieved 
from  all  obligations  assumed  in  the  name  of  the  society,  and 
that  the  indebtedness  of  the  Tabernacle  Church  to  him  should 
be  cancelled.  His  illness  lasted  about  seven  months,  during 
which  time  he  gradually  relinquished  the  many  schemes  for 
usefulness  which  he  had  planned,  and  resigned  himself  to  the 
Will  that  throughout  his  busy,  helpful  life  he  had  endeavored 
to  follow.  He  sent  his  love  to  all  the  Tabernacle  Church,  to 
its  pastor  and  several  members  by  name,  and  in  his  wandering 
thoughts  desired  to  be  "  dated  "  from  the  Tabernacle.  He 
died  in  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  January  26,  1849,  leaving  a  strong, 
united  church  to  carry  on  the  work  which  he  had  begun,  single- 
handed,  with  arduous  self-sacrifice  and  abounding  faith,  less 
than  nine  years  before. 

The  continuous  letting  of  the  Tabernacle  for  large  and 
sometimes  boisterous  gatherings  became  a  weariness  to  Dr. 
Thompson,  as  it  had  been  to  Mr.  Andrews  before  him;  par- 
ticularly when  the  church  prayer-meeting,  or  weekly  lecture, 
was  "  disturbed  and  rendered  unprofitable  by  noisy  assem- 
blages "  in  the  audience-room  directly  over  the  place  of  meet- 
ing. Various  entries  in  the  records,  such  as  a  vote  of  the 
church  committee  to  secure  a  lecture-room  away  from  the 
Tabernacle  "  because  of  noise  of  clapping  and  stamping  over- 
head," show  considerable  dissatisfaction,  and,  on  June  27, 
1848,  a  fortnight  after  Mr.  Hale  had  been  taken  ill,  the  pas- 
tor offered  a  resolution  in  the  church  meeting  that  a  committee 
of  five  should  be  appointed  to  confer  with  the  trustees  respect- 
ing this  evil,  and,  in  particular,  to  urge  upon  the  congregation 
the  importance  of  a  vigorous  effort  for  the  early  cancelling 
of  the  mortgage  in  order  to  diminish  the  necessity  for  the 
miscellaneous  lettings  of  the  house,  and  so  to  remove  what 
he  called  "  the  great  hindrance  "  to  their  temporal  and  spirit- 
ual prosperity.  Mr.  Thompson  gave  his  reasons  in  full,  and 
the  motion  was  passed  unanimously.  In  the  autumn  of  the 
same  year  the  pastor  went  further  and  preached  a  sermon  on 
the  importance  and  pecuniary  condition  of  the  Tabernacle  en- 

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From  the  Old  to  the  New  Tabernacle 

terprise  (repeated  by  request),  thus  preparing  the  society  for 
the  action  that  was  forced  upon  it  by  the  loss  of  Mr.  Hale; 
but  its  indebtedness  was  not  cancelled  at  once,  the  society 
still  found  it  necessary  to  let  the  house,  and  as  late  as  Decem- 
ber 12,  1853,  we  find  the  church  committee  proposing  to 
change  the  prayer-meeting  evening  because  of  the  noise. 

But  the  records  of  the  church  are  largely  occupied  during 
this  period  with  the  affairs  of  other  neighboring  churches. 
The  Tabernacle  took  part  in  the  organization  of  eighteen  new 
Congregational  churches  during  this  decade,  to  say  nothing 
of  the  numerous  councils  to  settle  or  unsettle  pastors  over 
these  infant  churches,  or  to  render  advice  as  to  the  pecuniary 
affairs  of  these  struggling  enterprises.  By  pastor  and  dele- 
gate it  assisted  in  not  less  than  eighty  councils  that  concerned 
Congregationalism  in  New  York  City  and  State  during  those 
ten  years. 

Early  in  1852  a  crushing  blow  fell  upon  the  pastor  of  the 
church.  His  wife,  Mrs.  Lucy  O.  Thompson,  daughter  of 
Mr.  James  Bartlett,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  who  had  been  in 
failing  health  for  several  years,  died  on  January  27th,  leaving 
four  little  children  to  her  husband's  care.  Under  the  great 
strain  upon  his  affections  and  sympathies,  caused  by  the  ill- 
ness and  death  of  his  wife,  Mr.  Thompson's  health  at  last 
gave  way,  and  he  was  forced  the  following  summer  to  ask 
release  from  pastoral  duties  for  a  year's  absence  abroad.  The 
younger  children  were  placed  in  charge  of  relatives  of  Mrs. 
Thompson,  the  society  requested  the  trustees  to  provide  funds 
for  the  expenses  of  their  pastor's  travel,  equal  in  amount  to 
his  salary,  and  the  following  year  they  appropriated  $600  to 
meet  the  indebtedness  incurred  for  the  children's  maintenance 
during  their  father's  absence,  and  increased  the  pastor's  sal- 
ary to  $3,000.  Once  before  an  additional  sum  had  been  paid 
Mr.  Thompson,  by  the  trustees,  in  order  that  his  wife  might 
be  supplied  with  those  comforts  that  her  failing  health  re- 
quired. Thus  was  established  that  system  of  distinguished 
liberality  which  has  marked  the  dealings  of  the  Broadway 
Tabernacle  with  all  its  ministers. 

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The  letters  that  passed  between  pastor  and  people  during 
these  transactions  were  mutually  affectionate  and  appreciative. 
In  response  to  his  application  for  release  from  work  the  trus- 
tees recorded  their  sympathy  with  him  in  his  sorrow,  and 
added : 

"  During  all  the  time  of  your  ministry  among  us  we  may  confidently 
say  that  there  has  never  been  a  time  when  the  pastor  has  not  had  the 
entire  confidence  and  affection  of  his  people." 

Dr.  Thompson's  rest  had  always  an  element  of  work  in  it, 
and  this  trip  abroad  was  made  to  do  service  in  aid  of  that 
Oriental  study  to  which  he  was  already  turning  his  attention. 
Leaving  his  oldest  son,  a  boy  of  nine  years  of  age,  with  friends 
in  France  who  cared  for  him  as  for  their  own,  he  now  visited 
Egypt  and  the  Holy  Land,  which  held  many  enigmas  that  he 
desired  to  solve.  From  this  time  he  devoted  much  time  and 
study  to  Egyptology,  being  the  first  student  in  the  country 
to  obtain  any  distinction  in  this  line  of  investigation. 

On  October  23,  1853,  Dr.  Thompson  married  Elizabeth  C. 
Gilman,  his  wife's  most  trusted  friend,  daughter  of  William 
C.  Gilman,  Esq.,  whose  family  had  come  into  the  church  on 
the  same  Sabbath  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson,  the  two  house- 
holds having  been  on  terms  of  special  friendship. 

Dr.  Thompson's  letter  of  acknowledgment,  addressed  on  his 
return  to  the  society,  is  full  of  interest.  He  confesses  that, 
owing  to  the  greater  cost  of  living  he  has  not  been  able  to 
keep  his  family  expenses  within  the  limits  of  the  salary  on 
which  he  was  settled,  and  is  grateful  that  the  necessary  in- 
crease of  salary  has  been  made  without  any  request  for  it  on 
his  part.  He  will  not  acknowledge  to  any  over-work,  though 
the  charge  was  brought  against  him,  no  doubt  justly,  all  his 
life ;  he  says,  rather,  that  his  health  was  impaired  "  not  by  any 
excess  of  labors,  but  by  a  strong  and  wearying  draught  upon 
the  affections  and  emotions  at  a  time  when  public  labors  were 
also  pressing,"  and  that  in  making  it  easy  for  him  to  rest  and 
travel  they  had  proved  the  best  of  physicians.     He  continues : 

"  My  life  as  pastor  does  not  date  exclusively  from  either 
the  '  sunny '  or  the  '  shady '  side.     I  like  a  little  of  both  for 

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the  best  effect  in  morals  as  well  as  in  nature.  But  this  full 
burst  of  sunshine  that  has  opened  upon  me  since  my  return 
will  last  through  many  a  shade.  While  I  feel  impelled  to 
speak  more  than  words  can  utter,  I  can  only  say  '  My  heart 
is  yours,  my  strength  is  yours,  my  labors  are  yours,  my  life 
is  yours,  for  Christ's  sake  and  the  Gospel's.'  "  Referring  to 
his  new  ties  he  adds :  "  The  same  kind  Providence  that  has 
restored  to  me  my  health  has  also  restored  to  me  my  home ;  " 
and  he  gives  the  parish  a  cordial  invitation  to  the  parsonage, 
63  Amity  Street,  on  the  following  evening.  Mrs.  Thompson 
worked  quietly  but  most  efficiently  to  second  her  husband's 
efforts,  and  the  home  in  Amity  Street,  as  well  as  Number  32 
West  Thirty-sixth  Street,  where  Dr.  Thompson  moved  in  1857 
when  the  old  Tabernacle  was  sold,  became  a  centre  of  helpful- 
ness and  hospitality.  "  I  will  consult  the  wise  woman,"  a  sen- 
tence often  heard  from  Dr.  Thompson's  lips,  was  not  mere  idle 
compliment. 

In  his  sixtieth  anniversary  reminiscences  Dr.  William  H. 
Thomson  recalled  the  friendliness  with  which  this  busy  pas- 
tor made  his  home  and  his  intellectual  pursuits  serve  the  needs 
of  his  parishioners,  especially  the  young  men.    He  said : 

"  Dr.  Thompson  had  a  very  pleasant  custom  of  having  small  social 
gatherings  at  his  house  when  he  would  first  read  an  essay  or  contribu- 
tion which  he  was  about  to  publish  in  some  periodical  or  book,*  and 
its  subject  would  be  offered  for  discussion  by  those  present,  many  of 
whom  were  men  greatly  distinguished  in  the  literary  world,  like  Rev. 
Dr.  Frothingham,  Dr.  Bellows,  or  William  Cullen  Bryant.  At  other 
times  the  company  would  be  limited  to  members  of  his  own  congrega- 
tion; but  at  all  times  the  guests  were  privileged  in  being  thus  permitted 
to  share  in  an  intellectual  feast,  which  often  had  the  further  and  in- 
tense interest  of  association  with  some  phase  of  stirring  national  con- 
test which  was  going  on.  I  cannot  but  remember  those  evenings  as 
bright  memories  indeed,  testifying  to  the  friendly  sentiment  which 
prompted  Dr.  Thompson  to  bring  young  men  into  the  best  fellowship 
which  his  position  afforded." 

But  the  ministrations  of  Dr.  Thompson  were  by  no  means 
confined  to  his  own  stated  congregation.     In  his  tenth  anni- 
*  For  a  partial  list  of  Dr.  Thompson's  published  works,  see  Appendix  H. 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

versary  sermon,  preached  April  8,  1855,  from  the  text:  "  With 
my  staff  I  passed  over  this  Jordan,  and  now  I  am  become  two 
bands,"  the  pastor  reviewed  the  general  history  of  Congre- 
gationalism in  New  York  for  the  decade,  as  well  as  the  his- 
tory of  the  church.  At  that  date  he  was  the  senior  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  order  in  the  Southern  District  of  New 
York;  of  the  more  than  two  hundred  Congregational  pas- 
tors in  the  State,  only  twelve  had  been  settled  longer  than  he. 
During  these  years  there  had  been  two  periods  of  revival,  in 
1846  and  in  the  winter  of  1851-52,  which  had  resulted  in 
large  accessions  to  the  church.  In  the  latter  period  Mr.  Fin- 
ney had  come  again  to  New  York  and  held,  in  his  old  church, 
services  that  had  been  fruitful  of  good  results.  But  the  rec- 
ords of  the  Church  Committee  bore  testimony,  from  the  first, 
to  the  efficacy  of  the  spoken  word  in  the  Tabernacle  pulpit. 
Many  who  came  before  the  committee  to  be  examined  for  ad- 
mission to  the  church,  attributed  their  first  awakening  to  a 
sermon  by  "  our  pastor,"  Mr.  Andrews  or  Dr.  Thompson,  and, 
at  this  period,  by  Dr.  Finney.  In  this  sermon,*  and  in  his  last 
sermon  in  the  old  Tabernacle,  Dr.  Thompson  illustrated,  by 
instance  after  instance,  the  value  to  strangers  of  the  Taber- 
nacle services  in  results  that  could  not  be  reckoned  by  ordi- 
nary church  statistics.  An  English  lady  from  Jamaica,  who 
had  sought  the  pastor's  counsel,  a  young  student  from  South 
Carolina,  a  stranger  casually  met  in  Germany,  an  invalid  seek- 
ing renewed  life  in  Egypt,  a  doubter  induced  by  a  friend  to 
listen  to  a  gospel  sermon,  a  Vermont  lawyer  curious  to  hear 
a  New  York  preacher,  had  all  personally  confessed  to  Dr. 
Thompson  their  indebtedness  for  heavenly  grace  and  comfort 
found  there,  when  they  were  but  chance  attendants.  Only 
"  the  Lord  "  could  "  count  when  He  writes  up  the  people  that 
this  man  was  born  there." 

When  the  rising  tide  of  business  began  to  sweep  up  toward 
Fourteenth  Street  and  to  force  New  York  citizens  to  seek  resi- 
dences farther  north,  the  downtown  churches  speedily  fol- 
lowed their  members  and  supporters.     In  1857  Dr.  Thompson 

*  Manual  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Ckttrch,  Sec,  1855. 
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From  the  Old  to  the  New  Tabernacle 

enumerated  twenty-two  churches  that  had  removed  from  be- 
low the  Tabernacle,  from  Broadway,  Exchange  Place,  Beek- 
man,  Cedar,  Chambers,  Gold,  Frankfort,  Franklin,  Fulton, 
Murray,  Nassau,  Pine,  Wall,  and  Warren  Streets  to  points 
higher  up  town.*  But  the  Tabernacle  Church  was  not  ready 
at  first  to  follow.  The  Christian  public  had  a  lien  on  the  build- 
ing and  would  have  detained  the  church  longer.  Christian 
merchants  were  glad  to  have  their  employees,  living  in  down- 
town boarding-houses,  welcomed  to  so  hospitable  a  church 
home.  Some  of  its  old  traditions  as  a  free  church  still  hung 
about  it;  its  preacher  took  an  open,  manly  stand  against 
slavery,  and  so,  many  who  had  been  trained  piously  and  who 
sought  to  build  up  homes  and  fortunes  in  a  free  republic — 
English,  Scotch,  Scotch-Irish,  knocked  for  admission  almost 
as  soon  as  they  landed  in  America,  and  were  never  denied ; 
but  old  residents  moved  away  and  were  swallowed  up  in  their 
neighboring  churches.  The  Tabernacle  Church  membership 
was  continually  fluctuating;  from  1840  to  1857,  sixty  were 
removed  by  death,  and  more  than  ten  times  as  many  by  dis- 
mission. 

The  church  did  not  yield  to  the  current  without  a  struggle. 
When,  in  1850,  the  effort  was  made  to  raise  money  to  pay  the 
debt  and  to  purchase  the  fee  of  the  Broadway  entrance,  an 
appeal  was  made  to  the  Christian  public  for  aid  to  retain 
"  this  great  house  of  worship,"  used  by  the  Church  at  large, 
for  the  public  benefit.  The  response  was  not  encouraging. 
Only  $800  was  subscribed  outside  the  society,  and  that  mainly 
upon  personal  grounds,  while  nearly  $10,000  was  raised  by 
the  society. 

Four  years  later  another  attempt  was  made  to  interest  the 
public  in  preserving  the  Tabernacle.  It  was  proposed  to  di- 
vide the  Tabernacle  property  into  stock,  to  alter  the  building 
so  that  it  might  bring  in  as  large  a  revenue  as  possible,  but 
to  reserve  from  the  stock  company  the  Sunday  use  of  the  build- 
ing for  church  purposes.  The  plan  included  the  erection  of 
a  new  house  of  worship  for  the  church  nearer  the  residences 

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of  its  members;  the  church  assuming  the  responsibility  and 
expense  of  supplying  the  pulpit  of  the  old  Tabernacle.  This 
stock  it  was  supposed  would  yield  a  seven  per  cent,  return; 
but  so  little  interest  was  shown  in  the  scheme  that  no  one  out- 
side the  Tabernacle  was  ready  to  subscribe. 

The  pastor  made  up  his  mind  that  money  and  a  preacher 
could  not  alone  sustain  a  church.  Christian  families  so  near 
to  the  place  of  worship  that  they  could  attend  its  various  ser- 
vices and  keep  up  social  intercourse  as  fellow-members  of  one 
Church  of  Christ  were  essential  in  order  that  the  church  might 
become  the  salt  of  the  region  in  which  it  was  placed.  This 
he  maintained  with  vigor.  There  were  too  few  Christian  fam- 
ilies settled  near  the  Tabernacle  to  support  its  services,  and 
with  might  and  main  he  urged  and  planned  for  removal  until 
the  inertia  of  the  church  was  overcome. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  society,  held  June  13,  1855,  it  was  voted 
to  change  the  location  of  the  place  of  worship;  and  at  rneet^- 
ings  held  in  the  following  November  the  trustees  were  au- 
thorized to  provide  a  site  for  a  new  church  edifice  in  the  upper 
part  of  the  city,  to  purchase  the  church  then  building  at  the 
corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Thirty-sixth  Street  if  satisfactory 
terms  could  be  had,  or  to  secure  lots  on  the  southwest  corner 
of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Thirty-eighth  Street  if  that  seemed 
more  desirable.  A  Building  Committee  of  three  from  the  so- 
ciety was  appointed  to  be  associated  with  the  trustees,  and 
permission  was  granted  to  the  trustees  to  issue  bonds,  secured 
by  mortgage  if  necessary,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  $30,000, 
to  pay  for  this,  the  amount  to  be  refunded  within  three  years 
by  the  sale  of  pews  in  the  new  church.  The  pastor  also  was 
given  authority  to  devote  half  his  Sabbath  services  to  the 
new  enterprise,  provided  a  competent  assistant  could  be 
secured. 

In  1853  the  church  property  had  been  offered  for  sale  at 
$150,000,  and  the  subject  of  removal  and  a  new  site  was  dis- 
cussed and  referred  to  committees  from  time  to  time  until 
February,  1857,  when  the  Tabernacle  property  was  sold  to 
Mr.  J.  J.  Phelps  for  $122,000.    The  question  of  a  site  then  be- 

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came  pressing.  Tenth  Street,  near  Broadway,  was  considered 
favorably  by  many,  but  another  Congregational  body,  the 
Church  of  the  Puritans,  under  the  charge  of  Dr.  George  B. 
Cheever,  worshipped  on  Union  Square,  and  it  seemed  wiser 
to  remove  still  farther  from  the  old  location.  A  committee 
appointed  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  consisting  of  Messrs. 
Thomas  Ritter,  Israel  Minor,  and  the  pastor,  recommended  a 
position  either  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Madison  Avenue 
and  Thirty-fourth  Street  or  the  present  site.  The  trustees 
voted  in  favor  of  the  latter,  and  their  decision  met  with  the 
approval  of  the  society,  April  6,  1857.  This  site,  at  the  inter- 
section of  Broadway,  Sixth  Avenue,  and  Thirty-fourth  Street, 
nearly  three  miles  north  of  the  old  location,  was- purchased, 
eight  lots  from  Messrs.  Randolph  and  Skidmore,  for  $62,500, 
and  two  lots  on  Thirty-fourth  Street  from  C.  W.  Thomas  for 
$16,000.  The  northern  portion  of  the  lot  on  Sixth  Avenue 
they  sold,  later,  for  $33,000. 

On  Sunday,  April  26th,  the  church  was  opened  for  divine 
service  for  the  last  time.  It  was  a  memorable  occasion. 
Former  attendants  and  members  of  the  church  came  back  for 
the  day  to  attend  the  reunions,  of  the  Pitts  Bible  Class  at  nine 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  of  Sunday-school  and  mission-schools 
in  the  afternoon.  The  afternoon  service  had  been  discontinued 
since  1855.  Even  the  choir  called  in  its  old  members,  and, 
in  the  evening,  more  than  a  hundred  voices  joined  in  the 
anthems,  one  of  which  had  been  composed  for  the  occasion  by 
Mr.  William  B.  Bradbury,  one  of  the  four  choristers  who, 
during  the  seventeen  years  since  the  founding  of  the  church, 
had  directed  its  music.  Three  of  the  four  were  present  and 
took  turns  in  leading  the  service  of  song.  During  the  morn- 
ing exercises  children  were  presented  for  baptism,  new  mem- 
bers admitted  to  the  church,  and  the  communion  administered. 
The  pastor's  morning  text  must  have  found  a  responsive  echo 
in  the  hearts  of  his  people :  "  If  thy  presence  go  not  with  me, 
carry  us  not  up  hence."  In  the  evening  Dr.  Thompson  gave 
an  historical  discourse,  preserved  in  the  little  book  entitled, 
"  The  Last  Sabbath  in  Broadway  Tabernacle."     Four  thou- 

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sand  people  remained  in  attentive,  almost  breathless,  silence 
during  the  two  hours  and  a  half  that  the  services  continued. 
Hundreds  went  away  unable  to  gain  admission.  After  the 
closing  anthem  the  vast  audience  arose  as  the  organist  began 
the  tune  of  Old  Hundred  and  joined  in  the  Doxology  (117th 
Psalm),  "  From  all  who  dwell  below  the  skies." 

"  Even  when  the  choir  had  sung  its  last  song  of  praise  and  the  organ 
had  pealed  its  last  note,  the  people  seemed  loth  to  leave  for  the  last  time 
this  place  where  they  had  so  often  assembled  in  the  great  congregation."  * 

During  the  two  years  that  intervened  between  the  giving 
up  of  the  old  house  of  worship  and  the  completion  of  the  new, 
the  church  held  its  services  in  the  city  assembly  rooms,  Hope 
Chapel  on  Broadway,  the  Chapel  of  the  Home  for  the  Friend- 
less on  East  Twenty-ninth  Street  —  familiarly  called  the 
"  Home  Chapel  " — and  in  the  chapel  of  the  new  building  on 
Thirty-fourth  Street.  It  was  arranged  that  the  prayer-meet- 
ing and  lecture  should  be  held  on  alternate  Friday  evenings 
in  the  chapel  of  the  New  York  University,  and  a  study  was 
secured  for  Dr.  Thompson  in  the  same  building.  It  was  his 
task  to  keep  the  church  from  disintegration,  to  hold  together 
those  members  who  could  be  persuaded  to  cast  in  their  lot 
with  the  new  enterprise,  and  to  draw  together  a  congregation 
from  the  neighborhood,  so  that  when  the  building  was  ready 
for  occupancy,  the  house  might  be  full.  Notwithstanding  its 
migrations,  the  church,  which  had  dwindled  from  a  member- 
ship of  four  hundred  and  nine  in  1848  to  two  hundred  and 
seventy  in  1857,  began  at  once  to  gain,  and,  March  1,  1859, 
nearly  two  months  before  the  dedication  of  the  new  house  of 
worship,  the  church  numbered  three  hundred  and  thirty-six 
members.  From  that  time  on,  the  increase  was  steady  and 
rapid.  Ten  years  later  there  were  five  hundred  and  fifty-five 
names  on  the  church  roll. 

There  had  been  changes  suggested  from  time  to  time  in  the 
Confession  of  Faith,  the  Covenant,  the  Form  of  Admission  to 
the  Church,  and  its  Standing  Rules,  all  of  which  were  in  the 

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line  of  greater  simplicity  and  less  severity.  There  was  one 
solemn  warning  used  for  years  when  new  members  were  re- 
ceived into  the  church,  "  Wo,  wo  to  the  person  who  offends  a 
whole  church,"  that  must  have  been  a  veritable  stumbling-block 
in  the  way  of  such  pilgrims  as  must  "  go  softly,"  like  Mr.  Fear- 
ing, Mr.  Despondency  and  his  daughter  Much  Afraid.  This 
anathema  was  retained  for  several  years  after  the  question  of 
its  omission  had  been  referred  to  the  Church  Committee.  Some 
changes,  however,  were  made  before  the  printing  of  every 
manual,  that  of  1846,  1855,  i860,  until  1866;  but  from  that 
date  the  forms  and  rules  remained  almost  intact  not  only  dur- 
ing the  after  years  of  Dr.  Thompson's  ministry,  but  throughout 
the  whole  of  Dr.  Taylor's  pastorate.  It  was  not  until  Dr.  Stim- 
son  began  his  ministry  that  Permanent  Rule  7,  that  discrimi- 
nated against  women,  denying  them  voice  or  vote  in  settling 
questions  that  concerned  the  church,  was  so  altered  as  to  give 
the  right  to  both  sexes  by  substituting  the  word  adult  for  male. 
Other  changes  that  first  appeared  in  the  year-book  of  1893  were 
the  revival  of  the  Absentee  Roll,  Permanent  Rule  6,  and  some 
enrichment  of  the  service  of  admission  to  the  church,  notably, 
the  recognition  of  the  work  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  regenerating 
the  heart,  and  of  the  duty  of  members  of  the  church  to  con- 
tribute their  share  toward  its  support. 

In  selecting  an  architect  for  the  new  structure  the  choice  of 
the  Building  Committee  lay  between  Mr.  Upjohn,  the  architect 
of  Trinity  Church,  New  York,  and  of  Dr.  Storrs's  Church,  in 
Brooklyn,  and  Mr.  Leopold  Eidlitz ;  their  final  decision  was  in 
favor  of  the  latter,  and  Mr.  Eidlitz's  plans  and  estimates  were 
accepted  by  the  society,  July  17,  1857,  on  condition  that  the 
church  could  be  built  for  $73,000;  the  building  and  architect 
fees  not  to  exceed  $75,000.  The  corner-stone  was  laid  on  the 
following  Christmas  Day,  at  two  o'clock,  by  the  pastor.  The 
assisting  clergymen  were  the  Reverend  Drs.  Cheever,  Burchard, 
Vermilye,  Budington,  Rufus  W.  Clark,  and  Badger.  The  music 
was  led  by  Mr.  F.  H.  Nash.  In  the  corner-stone,  according  to 
the  society  records,  Dr.  Thompson  deposited  a  leaden  box  con- 
taining copies  of  the  Holy  Bible,  Church  Psalmist,  the  church 

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manuals,  reports  of  the  various  benevolent  societies,  the  various 
religious  and  secular  papers  of  the  city,  the  discourse  of  Dr. 
Thompson  commemorative  of  "  the  late  Dr.  Lansing,"  and  a 
copy  of  "  The  Last  Sabbath  in  the  Broadway  Tabernacle,"  and 
a  copper  plate  containing  the  following  inscription : 

The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  and  Society, 
Organized  July  6,  1840, 
after  the  Congregational  order  of  New  England,  erect  this 
their  second  house  of  worship 

a.d.  1857-8. 
Leopold  Eidlitz — Architect. 

BUILDING    COMMITTEE: 

Myron  J.  Frisbie,  Chairman,  William  G.  West, 

Israel  Minor,  Treasurer,  Thomas  Ritter, 

Samuel  Holmes,  Secretary,  John  Gray, 

James  Smith. 

Corner-stone  laid  December  25,  1857. 

Officers  of  church  and   society,   1857-8,   Rev'd  Joseph   P. 
Thompson,  D.D.,  pastor. 

Deacons  : 
Henry  Whittlesey,  George  Walker, 

Isaac  Minor,  Matthew  W.  Stone,  Jr. 

Church  Clerk: 
William  W.  Fessenden. 

Trustees  of  Society: 
John  Gray,  Chairman,  Thomas  Ritter, 

Samuel  Holmes,  Secretary,  William  G.  West, 

Israel  Minor,  James  Smith. 

An  Historical  Sketch  of  the  Society  and  other  documents 
were  added  to  the  box,  which,  after  being  lowered  to  its  place, 

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was  covered  by  the  stone,  the  pastor  using  a  silver  trowel  pre- 
sented by  the  architect  and  builders.  The  services  concluded 
with  the  singing  of  the  doxology. 

The  Tabernacle  was  built  upon  a  lot  measuring  a  hundred 
feet  on  Sixth  Avenue  by  a  hundred  and  fifty  on  Thirty-fourth 
Street,  the  building  being  eighty-nine  feet  six  inches  front 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty  deep,  including  the  chapel  in  the 
rear,  under  the  same  roof.  The  main  audience-room  is  sev- 
enty-six feet  wide  by  ninety  feet  in  depth,  exclusive  of  the 
recess  for  the  pulpit.  The  great  organ,  back  of  the  pulpit, 
was  built  by  Messrs.  Ferris  &  Co.  The  building  stone  was 
Little  Falls  rubble,  the  dimension  stone  and  porches  being  of 
cream-colored  New  Brunswick  stone.  The  style  chosen  for 
the  building,  architecturally,  was  perpendicular  Gothic,  and  on 
either  side  of  the  nave,  supporting  the  pointed  arches  of  the 
clear-story,  were  three  large  pillars  of  cream-colored  stone, 
which  have  since  been  removed.  The  house  seats  about  1,600 
persons;  the  chapel,  twenty-eight  feet  by  eighty-five,  seats 
nearly  five  hundred. 

For  the  pastor's  use,  on  the  north  side  of  the  church,  was 
built  a  reception-room  on  the  lower  floor,  and,  above,  a  study 
with  book-shelves  and  closets  and  an  additional  library  with 
accommodations  for  books,  drawers,  and  maps,  all  most  con- 
veniently planned  for  Dr.  Thompson's  Oriental  and  geograph- 
ical studies. 

The  building  was  erected  by  Mr.  Marc  Eidlitz,  mason,  and 
Mr.  Thomas  Wilson,  carpenter,  and,  after  its  completion,  the 
society  gave  a  special  vote  of  thanks  to  Deacon  Israel  Minor 
not  only  for  many  years  of  helpful  service  and  efficient  and 
frequent  aid  in  pecuniary  difficulties,  but  especially  for  the 
time  and  attention  given  by  him  to  the  building  of  the  new 
church  edifice. 

The  house  was  opened  for  public  worship  April  24,  1859. 
Dr.  Badger,  Secretary  of  the  Home  Missionary  Society,  of- 
fered prayer;  the  congregation  sang  William  Cullen  Bryant's 
dedicatory  hymn, 

"  O  Thou  whose  own  vast  temple  stands," 

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and  Professor  Edwards  A.  Park,  of  Andover  Theological 
Seminary,  preached  the  sermon.  The  pastor  then  made  an 
historical  statement  which  closed  as  follows: 

"  This  house  which  is  founded  throughout  upon  the  native  rock,  is 
built  of  the  best  materials  and  in  the  most  substantial  manner.  During 
all  the  progress  of  the  work,  the  Trustees  and  Building  Committee 
having  availed  themselves  of  the  best  professional  skill,  have  given  to 
it  their  active  and  patient  superintendence,  and  with  conscientious 
fidelity  have  discharged  the  responsibility  committed  to  them.  The 
church  and  society  have  in  all  proper  ways  co-operated  in  the  work, 
and  everyone  has  contributed  a  part ;  the  Ladies'  Circle  with  the  fruits 
of  their  pleasant  toil,  have  provided  the  furniture  of  this  pulpit  and 
its  platform,  as  well  as  that  of  the  social  rooms  in  the  chapel.  The 
house  now  furnished  for  the  worship  of  God  in  every  particular  except 
the  organ  has  been  completed  without  accident  to  life  or  limb. 

"  It  does  not  accord  with  our  views  of  worship  under  the  Christian 
dispensation  nor  with  the  usages  of  our  body  to  attach  sanctity  to  a 
material  structure.  But  it  does  accord  with  the  inmost  sense  of  pro- 
priety and  with  the  devout  sentiment  of  Christian  gratitude,  and  it  has 
also  the  warrant  of  Scripture,  that  we  should  set  apart  with  due  solem- 
nity the  place  in  which  we  and  our  children  shall  worship  God,  and 
should  hallow  it  in  our  thoughts  and  associations.  Now  therefore,  O 
ye  people,  blessed  of  the  Lord,  I  would  call  upon  you  to  arise  and  join 
with  me  in  offering  this  new  temple  to  the  service  of  the  Triune  God 
— the  Father,  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost.  We  bring  to  God  with 
reverence  and  gratitude  this  house  of  prayer  and  praise,  beseeching  him 
to  hallow  it  with  his  presence  in  our  assemblies  and  his  blessing  upon 
our  worship.  We  dedicate  these  walls  to  the  uses  of  a  church  of  Christ. 
We  dedicate  these  seats  for  the  solemn  and  joyful  convocations  of 
God's  people  in  the  reverent  worship  of  his  name  and  the  devout  hear- 
ing of  his  Word.  We  dedicate  this  choir  to  the  service  of  song  in  the 
house  of  the  Lord.  We  dedicate  this  pulpit  to  the  preaching  of  Christ 
and  him  crucified ;  and  this  table  of  communion  to  that  high  and  sacred 
service  whereby  we  do  show  forth  the  Lord's  death  till  he  come.  May 
he  whose  glory  fills  the  heavens,  condescend  to  meet  his  people  in 
this  house.  May  Christ  here  build  in  his  temple  new  and  living  stones. 
May  the  Holy  Spirit  here  bless  the  Word  unto  sanctification  and  eternal 
life.  May  our  children  and  our  children's  children  here  worship  in  the 
beauty  of  holiness,  when  we  shall  slumber  in  the  dust.  And  when  our 
earthly  house  of  this  Tabernacle  shall  be  dissolved  may  we  enter  upon 
a  purer,  nobler  worship  in  that  city  where  the  Lord  God  Almighty  and 
the  Lamb  are  the  temple  of  it.  And  to  the  King  Eternal,  Immortal, 
Invisible,  the  only  wise  God  be  glory  in  the  Church  by  Christ  Jesus 
throughout  all  ages,  world  without  end,  Amen." 

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The  prayer  of  dedication  was  then  offered  by  the  pastor, 
after  which  an  anthem,  the  words  of  which  had  been  arranged 
by  Dr.  Thompson  and  the  music  composed  by  Mr.  William 
B.  Bradbury,  was  sung  by  a  select  choir.  The  service  was 
concluded  with  the  doxology  and  benediction.  There  was 
also  an  afternoon  service  at  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  Storrs,  of 
Brooklyn,  preached  on  the  topic,  "  The  Assembly  of  Chris- 
tians, the  Temple  of  God,"  and  the  usual  evening  service,  con- 
ducted by  the  pastor,  whose  subject  was  "  Preaching  the  Gos- 
pel the  Grand  Function  of  the  Minister."  These  discourses 
were  published  together  in  a  book  issued  soon  after  the  dedica- 
tion of  the  church. 

At  the  completion  of  the  new  Tabernacle  there  was  a  debt 
upon  the  building  of  $65,000 ;  but,  instead  of  selling  the  pews 
as  had  at  first  been  proposed,  it  was  resolved  that  there  should 
be  no  private  ownership  in  the  building,  so  the  pews  were 
rented  at  auction  and  the  trustees  decided  to  carry  the  debt 
until  arrangements  could  be  made  for  removing  it.  The  rec- 
ords of  the  Church  Committee  state  that  the  committee  "  met 
February  13,  1863,"  and  by  vote  authorized  a  collection  to 
be  taken  on  the  next  Sabbath  toward  the  debt  of  the  society, 
and  Dr.  Thompson  was  requested  "  to  beg  handsomely  in  his 
usual  way  for  the  same."  Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  was 
raised  by  this  effort,  and  the  following  year,  by  a  renewed 
subscription  consummated  on  the  second  Sabbath  in  May, 
they  raised  the  remaining  sum  of  $40,000  and  cancelled  every 
claim  upon  the  property.  Besides  this  the  running  expenses 
of  the  church  had  been  liberally  provided  for,  and  by  1864, 
through  a  gradual  increase,  the  pastor's  salary  had  been  raised 
to  $5,000. 

One  remarkable  addition  to  the  church  took  place  in  1861. 
The  Church  of  the  Puritans,  under  the  ministerial  charge  of 
that  abolition  war-horse,  Dr.  George  B.  Cheever,  used  severe 
measures  with  certain  of  its  deacons  and  members  who  dis- 
approved of  their  pastor's  methods.  They  were  dismissed  to 
other  churches,  without  recommendation,  and  the  aggrieved 
members  called  an  ex  parte  council  which  gave  them  such 

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redress  as  was  in  its  power.  This  was  in  1859.  Two  years 
later  another  council  was  called  by  seventy-six  members,  a 
much  larger  number  than  before,  who  were  in  like  condem- 
nation, and  had  other  serious  matters  of  complaint.  This 
council  recommended  the  churches  to  withdraw  fellowship 
from  the  Church  of  the  Puritans,  as  its  acts  were  uncongrega- 
tional,  and  recognized  those  calling  this  ex  parte  council  as 
worthy  members  of  the  Church  of  Christ.  About  forty  of 
their  number  united  with  the  Broadway  Tabernacle.  Dr. 
Cheever,  with  his  church,  joined  the  Presbyterian  body. 

In  temporal  and  spiritual  affairs  and  in  many  good  works 
the  church  was  prosperous.  But  that  which  marked  Dr. 
Thompson's  pastorate  most  notably,  and  brought  the  Broad- 
way Tabernacle  prominently  before  the  country  at  large,  was 
the  heroic  stand  taken  by  him  and  his  people  with  him  against 
slavery  and  in  support  of  the  Union.  Dr.  Thompson,  with 
all  his  mental  and  social  culture  and  refinement,  was  in  hearty 
sympathy  with  the  masses.  One  ringing  sentence  from  the 
last  sermon  preached  in  the  old  Tabernacle  shows  his  attitude 
definitely : 

"  The  location  we  have  chosen  is  central  for  all  classes  and  I  pray 
God  daily  that  this  church  and  Society  may  be  preserved  from  that 
unchristian  and  suicidal  policy  that  excludes  the  poor  from  the  house 
of  God,  that  gauges  men  in  the  church  by  their  pew-rates;  and  that 
makes  the  income  of  the  pews  a  test  of  the  principles  that  should  be 
uttered  from  the  pulpit,  ...  I  trust  never  to  meet  this  church  in 
a  so-called  house  of  God  where  no  place  is  found  for  the  poor  and  no 
prayer  is  heard  for  the  slave." 

The  italics  are  his  own. 

Though  not  in  the  ranks  of  so-called  Abolitionists,  Dr. 
Thompson  was  no  laggard  in  anti-slavery  activities.  He  took 
part  in  them  from  religious  principle,  and  his  editorial  posi- 
tion gave  him  a  coign  of  vantage  from  which  to  influence 
Christian  men,  and  the  ministry  especially,  as  he  labored  to 
bring  the  churches  up  to  his  standard  of  opposition  to  slavery 
on  moral  grounds.     More  than  once  he  invited  a  colored  min- 

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ister  to  preach,  in  his  pulpit,  against  slavery,  heedless  of  de- 
murring conservatives.  He  became  especially  conspicuous  in 
this  movement  by  his  opposition  to  the  Fugitive  Slave  Law. 
He  asserted  that  such  a  law  could  not  be  binding  on  the  con- 
science, and  therefore  had  no  valid  authority  over  the  fugi- 
tive. Both  press  and  pulpit  rushed  into  violent  controversy 
with  him,  but  he  had  the  courage  of  his  convictions  and  his 
spirit  kindled  with  discussion.  He  was  not  to  be  intimidated 
by  opposition,  but  declared  that  whatever  the  consequences 
the  fugitive  should  be  sheltered,  fed,  and  aided  in  his  flight 
in  the  name  of  humanity  and  of  God,  and  his  people  sup- 
ported him  and  shared  in  his  reproach.  Anti-slavery  meet- 
ings in  the  church  were  broken  up  by  angry  mobs,  and  once, 
during  the  war,  he  was  shot  at,  in  his  pulpit,  by  a  half-crazed 
fanatic.  The  site  of  the  church  became  known  as  "  Liberty 
Corner." 

When  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  on  and  war  broke  out,  his 
patriotism  blazed  afresh.  During  the  war  it  was  the  key- 
note of  his  discourses  that  the  duty  of  citizens  was  to  pro- 
claim and  establish  political  liberty  throughout  the  land  with- 
out distinction  of  color,  and  to  prosecute  vigorously  the  war 
that  had  been  forced  upon  them.  He  would  discuss  such 
topics  as  "  How  to  build  a  nation,"  "  Revolution  against  a 
free  government  not  a  right,  but  a  crime,"  on  Sunday  even- 
ings in  his  effort  to  develop  patriotic  citizenship,  making  use 
of  flags  and  a  band  of  music  to  draw  in  the  people ;  but  when 
some  fervid  utterance  called  forth  applause  he  would  stay  the 
demonstration  with  the  uplifted  hand,  reminding  his  hearers 
that  they  were  in  the  house  of  God.  When  Lincoln  was  assas- 
sinated he  delivered  a  notable  eulogy  before  the  Union  League 
Club.  This  club  and  the  Loyal  Publication  Society  issued  sev- 
eral of  his  addresses,  during  the  war,  for  general  circulation. 

In  the  historical  sermon  preached  at  the  close  of  his  long 
pastorate,  Dr.  Thompson  gives  a  thrilling  account  of  those 
days  of  strife  and  turmoil,  and  quotes  a  few  of  those  pulpit 
prophecies : 

"  Slavery  must  go  down ;    but  this  nation,  like  Rome,  may  first  go 

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down  in  the  struggle"  (1856).    "  It  will  be  no  marvel  if  our  children 
see  a  prostrate  commerce,  a  servile  insurrection  or  a  civil  war"  (1854), 

and,  as  early  as  185 1 : 

"  Either  Slavery  must  go  down  voluntarily,  speedily,  peaceably,  under 
the  moral  influence  of  the  gospel,  or  Slavery  or  Liberty  will  one  day 
go  down  in  blood." 

Dr.  Thompson  said  further  of  the  Tabernacle,  during  the 
civil  war: 

"  This  church  was  behind  no  other  body,  religious  or  secular,  in 
patriotic  zeal  and  sacrifice  for  the  defence  of  the  nation.  From  its 
congregation  five-and-twenty  enlisted  in  the  army:  five  of  these  died 
in  the  service,  of  whom  two  were  brought  home  to  be  buried  lovingly 
from  the  bosom  of  the  Church.  The  Sanitary,  Union,  and  Christian 
Commissions  had  its  constant  and  energetic  support;  the  great  Fairs 
were  largely  officered  and  equipped  from  the  women  of  this  congrega- 
tion. By  solemn  vote  and  prayer  you  sent  your  pastor  to  minister  in 
your  name  upon  the  battle-fields  of  Tennessee;  and  you  greeted  his 
return  with  fresh  outpourings  of  your  bounty  for  the  soldiers;  again 
and  again  you  draped  organ  and  pulpit  with  flags  and  made  this  a 
rallying-ground  for  Liberty  and  Union  under  the  uplifted  banner  of  the 
cross;  and  when  all  was  over  you  held  within  these  walls  a  majestic 
requiem  for  three  hundred  thousand  dead. 

"  But  there  was  one  incident  of  the  war  which  signalized  the  loyal 
devotion  of  this  church  to  country  and  to  Christ.  It  was  in  that  darkest 
hour  when  delays  and  defeats  had  so  blighted  hope  that  treason  came 
out  of  its  lurking  places  in  the  North  and  hissed  its  venom  at  the  Gov- 
ernment; when  the  President  hesitated  either  to  enforce  the  draft  or 
to  call  for  volunteers;  and  when  timid  conservatives  began  to  say, 
'  We  had  better  give  it  up  and  make  terms.'  Your  pastor  came  into 
the  pulpit  with  a  plea  for  Christian  manhood,  saying,  '  Of  what  avail 
are  our  churches,  if  we  shall  no  longer  have  a  government  or  a  coun- 
try, let  the  churches  save  both.  Let  this  church  call  for  volunteers; 
equip  a  regiment  and  put  it  into  the  field  to  show  that  we  will  never 
give  it  up.'  At  the  close  of  the  service  someone  called  upon  the  con- 
gregation to  remain;  proposed  a  subscription  for  a  church  regiment; 
and  before  night  of  that  memorable  Sabbath,  upwards  of  thirty  thou- 
sand dollars  were  laid  upon  this  altar.  Two  women  sent  me  each 
five  hundred  dollars,  saying,  'We  cannot  go;  put  men  in  our  stead.'  * 
That  action  went  like  a  flash  of  electricity  through  the  land ;  it  brought 
letters  of  thanks  from  Senators  at  Washington,  from  members  of  the 
*  One  of  these  was  Mrs.  Marshall  O.  Roberts. 
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Cabinet,  from  generals  in  the  field.  It  cheered  the  burdened  heart  of 
the  President  and  gave  new  courage  to  his  indomitable  Minister  of 
War.  Though  the  immediate  action  of  the  Government  superseded 
this  new  recruiting  office,  yet  the  spontaneous  and  magnanimous  act  of 
that  day  will  forever  stand  as  the  proudest  memento  of  our  Christian 
patriotism." 

In  behalf  of  the  Sanitary  Commission  Dr.  Thompson  went 
for  weeks  with  the  consent  of  his  church  through  the  Middle 
and  Western  States,  speaking  every  night  to  vast  audiences 
and  drawing  out  liberal  contributions  from  his  hearers.  He 
received  a  commission  from  the  New  York  Branch  of  the 
Christian  Commission,  as  did  many  other  New  York  clergy- 
men, and  did  service  in  the  front,  carrying  hospital  stores,  min- 
istering to  the  comfort  of  the  wounded,  and  speaking  words 
of  Christian  hope;  while  for  the  Union  Commission  he  ad- 
dressed large  meetings  in  Washington  and  elsewhere,  and 
gathered  again  and  again  large  contributions  from  the  Taber- 
nacle Church  for  Union  refugees. 

But  the  severest  test  of  Dr.  Thompson's  patriotism,  his 
crowning  sacrifice  for  the  cause  of  liberty,  was  the  giving  up 
to  the  service  of  his  country  of  his  oldest  son,  a  student  in 
Andover  and  a  young  man  of  rare  promise,  John  Hanson 
Thompson.  He  enlisted,  with  his  father's  consent,  May  25, 
1862,  and  died  of  typhoid  pneumonia,  March  16,  1863.  In 
those  ten  months  of  service  by  his  ready  response  to  every 
call  of  duty  he  had  proved  how  "  nigh  is  grandeur  to  our 
dust."  He  was  described  by  one  of  his  comrades  as  "  always 
quiet  and  gentle,  looked  as  if  he  couldn't  stand  it,  he  was  so 
slim;  never  said  much,  but  always  did  it."  At  the  request 
of  his  army  associates,  as  well  as  of  the  members  of  Dr. 
Thompson's  Young  Men's  Bible  Class,  his  father  wrote  "  The 
Sergeant's  Memorial,"  which  had  a  wide  circulation,  especially 
in  the  army.  The  father  hastened  to  his  son  as  soon  as  he 
learned  of  his  serious  illness,  but  reached  the  camp  too  late 
to  find  him  living.  From  the  strain  and  exposure  of  these 
Southern  journeys  and  labors  for  the  soldiers  Dr.  Thompson 
never  recovered. 

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During  this  pastorate  the  charities  of  the  church  covered  a 
wide  range.  Dr.  Thompson's  international  interests  put  him 
in  touch  with  Christian  work  all  over  the  world.  The  reg- 
ular scheme  of  church  benevolences  for  a  series  of  years  was 
but  slightly  varied  from  this,  adopted  in  1859.  Contributions : 
January,  Seaman's  Friend  Society;  March,  Home  Missions; 
May,  Congregational  Union;  June,  New  York  Bible  Society; 
September,  Tract  Society  (Boston) ;  October,  Education  in 
the  West;  November,  Foreign  Missions.  It  was,  perhaps, 
specified  that  the  money  raised  for  the  educational  work 
should  be  given  to  Oberlin,  and  for  years  the  American  Tract 
Society  was  passed  over  because  of  its  lack  of  moral  courage 
in  the  matter  of  slavery.  Many  special  causes  were  presented 
in  the  course  of  the  year.  It  might  be  that  a  colored  man 
was  permitted  to  stand  at  the  door  of  the  lecture-room  Fri- 
day evening  to  take  such  sums  as  should  be  given  him,  or  a 
colored  woman  to  receive  a  collection  to  free  her  children 
from  slavery.  The  records  tell  of  a  collection  for  aid  of  suf- 
ferers in  Syria,  the  pastor  to  preach  on  the  subject;  a  collec- 
tion for  Hayti;  for  suffering  fellow-citizens  in  Kansas,  for 
the  Evangelical  Society  of  Geneva,  the  Spanish  Evangelical 
Society,  for  freed  people  on  the  banks  of  the  Mississippi,  and  of 
many  another  object,  outside  denominational  bounds,  aided  by 
the  church. 

Before  the  excitement  of  the  Civil  War  had  died  away  the 
pastor  reorganized  the  departments  of  church  work,  taking 
some  hints  from  the  methods  of  his  Episcopal  brethren,  espe- 
cially from  Dr.  Tyng's  efficient  organization.  He  established 
a  Bible  class  for  the  women  of  his  congregation,  attended  by 
from  twenty-five  to  forty,  that  is  still  a  precious  memory  to 
those  who  availed  themselves  of  it.  Some  of  his  apt  pleasan- 
tries are  yet  quoted;  as  when  in  his  talks  on  Egypt  and  the 
Holy  Land  (for  they  began  with  the  Old  Testament)  many 
exclaimed  wonderingly,  "I  never  heard  of  such  a  thing;" 
their  teacher  responded,  "  My  knowledge  is  not  to  be  abashed 
by  your  ignorance."  He  illustrated  the  grip  of  the  Mosaic 
law  on  the  New  England  conscience  by  the  story  of  a  deacon 

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who  met  him  after  morning  service,  in  a  church  where  he  was 
preaching  as  a  stranger,  and  said,  "  If  it  were  not  the  Sab- 
bath I  should  ask  you  home  to  dine  with  me."  Dr.  Thomp- 
son replied :  "  Since  a  better  man  than  I  once  dined  on  the 
Sabbath  with  a  worse  man  than  you,  I  should  not  refuse  if 
you  asked  me."  One  season  some  proposed  that  they  should 
study  from  Jeremiah;  but  Dr.  Thompson  said  it  was  too  sad 
a  portion  of  the  Bible  for  them.  He  was  a  cheerful  man  who, 
as  he  used  to  say,  always  endeavored  to  do  the  possible  and 
accept  the  inevitable.  When  he  went  abroad  the  class  was 
taught  by  Dr.  William  H.  Thomson,  whose  success  as  a 
Bible  teacher  is  known  far  beyond  the  limits  of  the  Taber- 
nacle Church.  Dr.  Thompson  spent  many  hours  each  week 
in  preparation  for  this  class.  He  opened  it  with  prayer,  and 
at  its  close  read  one  of  the  meditations  afterward  published 
in  his  "  Home  Worship."  A  member  of  the  class  writes : 
"  His  opening  prayer  always  seemed  to  breathe  peace.  The 
remembrance  is  strong,  through  all  the  years,  of  the  hush  that 
came  to  the  spirit  by  his  voice  in  prayer."  When  Dr.  Thomp- 
son left  New  York,  for  a  residence  in  Berlin,  his  Bible  class 
sent  him  a  basket  of  flowers  with  a  note  containing  a  check 
for  $100  for  the  purchase  of  books,  that  they  might  still  be 
associated  with  him  in  his  Biblical  studies.  His  acknowledg- 
ment, written  from  Liverpool  and  signed  "  Your  loving 
teacher,"  has  been  preserved  for  thirty  years  by  one  of  his 
grateful  pupils. 

Dr.  Thompson's  marvellous  capacity  for  work  has  already 
been  noted.  The  following  is  the  programme  of  one  of  his 
Mondays,  usually  a  pastor's  rest  day,  in  1868.  Till  about  ten 
in  the  morning  he  remained  in  the  church  office  to  receive 
callers,  notice  of  this  being  given  from  the  pulpit  Sunday. 
The  usual  Monday  Ministers'  Meeting  followed.  Early  in  the 
afternoon  he  gave  one  of  his  course  of  lectures  on  Palestine 
at  Rutgers'  Female  College,  met  his  Bible  class  at  three 
o'clock,  and,  later,  conducted  a  funeral — four  of  these  being 
regular  engagements.  Dr.  Bacon  called  him  the  busiest  man 
he  ever  knew,  "  the  most  diligent  to  do  with  his  might  what- 

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soever  his  hands,  reaching  in  every  direction,  could  find  to 
do,"  and  Professor  Austin  Phelps,  who  once  spent  a  month 
in  his  New  York  home,  writing  for  the  Congregationalist  of 
Dr.  Thompson  after  his  death,  says  of  his  "  wonderful  work- 
ing power,"  that  at  one  time  the  severity,  at  another  the  variety, 
of  his  labors  excited  astonishment. 

After  a  week  of  multiplied  engagements,  all  systematized 
and  planned  for  by  clock  work,  Professor  Phelps  assumed  that 
the  doctor  would  give  his  people  an  old  sermon  on  Sunday 
morning.    He  says: 

"  At  the  close  of  the  morning  service  I  fancied  that  my  conjecture 
had  proved  true.  He  had  preached  a  sermon  written  in  full ;  elaborate, 
finished,  logical,  illustrative,  ornate — a  sermon  which  was  like  himself 
a  variegated  structure,  one  of  the  most  faultless  discourses  that  I  have 
ever  heard — on  the  doctrine  of  the  Trinity!  My  copious  notes  of  that 
sermon  exist  among  my  papers  to  this  day.  I  brought  it  home  with 
me  to  exhibit  to  my  pupils  as  a  model  of  a  scholarly,  yet  a  popular, 
sermon  on  that  very  difficult  theme.  The  interest  of  his  audience  in 
it  was  a  refreshing  answer  to  the  objections  to  doctrinal  preaching. 

"  Judge  of  my  surprise  at  learning,  when  I  met  him  at  the  dining 
hour,  that  the  entire  plan  of  that  discourse  had  been  concocted  on  the 
previous  Sunday  evening,  and  the  whole  of  it  had  been  written  in  the 
first  four  mornings  of  the  following  days.  It  was  a  sermon  such  as 
the  Rev.  John  M.  Mason,  D.D.,  a  celebrated  pastor  in  New  York  in 
the  olden  times,  if  he  could  ever  have  written  it  would  have  spent  a 
month  in  the  writing,  as  he  advised  his  younger  brethren  to  do  in  dis- 
coursing on  similar  subjects." 

Dr.  Thompson  was  in  close  touch  with  Andover;  Professor 
Park's  stately  form  was  a  familiar  figure  in  his  pulpit,  and 
Professor  Phelps  was  a  close  personal  friend.  As  late  as 
1 87 1  he  delivered  a  course  of  lectures  on  Egyptology  before 
the  Andover  Seminary. 

But  in  attending  to  outside,  large  affairs  Dr.  Thompson  did 
not  overlook  the  individual  interests  of  his  people.  He  was 
solicitous  about  the  small  details  of  their  secular  life,  and  gave 
time  and  thought  for  their  service.  He  begged  a  lady  of 
his  church  to  patronize  a  sister  member  who  was  setting  up 
a  little  thread  and  needle  store  in  her  neighborhood;    he  in- 

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terested  himself  in  the  success  of  a  school  kept  by  another 
member;  still  another  who  conducted  a  boarding-house  was 
filled  with  gratitude  for  his  kind  interest  and  sympathy  when 
she  suffered  bereavement.  He  even  gave  German  lessons  to 
a  member  of  his  church  and  choir,  who  with  a  friend  studied 
under  his  direction. 

When  sickness  and  death  visited  his  people,  Dr.  Thompson's 
tenderness  never  failed.  One  who  left  the  church  at  the  out- 
break of  the  war  because  her  husband,  a  Southern  sympathizer, 
refused  to  sit  under  his  ministry,  still  speaks  with  gratitude 
of  Dr.  Thompson's  tender  pastoral  care  in  times  of  sorrow, 
the  memory  of  which  has  led  her,  more  than  once,  when  in 
Berlin,  to  seek  his  burying-place  in  the  Jerusalem  Church-yard. 

Premonitions  of  failing  health  led  Dr.  Thompson,  in  1866, 
to  seek  rest  abroad.  During  his  absence,  instead  of  hearing 
a  variety  of  preachers,  the  church  engaged  Professor  Roswell 
D.  Hitchcock  to  supply  the  pulpit.  He  was  a  brilliant  and  im- 
pressive preacher,  and  from  this  time,  as  if  they  had  found 
in  him  an  associate  pastor,  the  church  turned  naturally  to  Dr. 
Hitchcock  when  Dr.  Thompson  was  away. 

It  was  not  until  October  22,  1871,  that  Dr.  Thompson  re- 
signed his  charge.  The  announcement  came  with  a  shock  upon 
his  people,  as  he  had  been  reticent  in  regard  to  his  health. 
His  doctors,  however,  insisted  that  he  should  withdraw  from 
all  public  responsibilities  and  he  himself  could  no  longer  sat- 
isfy his  conscience  in  the  discharge  of  pastoral  duties  when 
life  was  constant  care,  almost  a  constant  suffering,  and  when 
unmistakable  symptoms  threatened  the  brain. 

The  church  recognized  at  once  the  inevitableness  of  the 
separation,  and  immediately  appointed  a  committee  consisting 
of  Messrs.  Caleb  B.  Knevals,  Levi  M.  Bates,  Marshall  O.  Rob- 
erts, William  Henry  Smith,  and  John  Gray,  to  raise  from  the 
church  and  society  a  sum  not  less  than  $30,000  to  be  pre- 
sented to  their  retiring  pastor  on  the  anniversary  of  his  instal- 
lation. Besides  this  a  voluntary  subscription  of  $20,925  was 
at  once  taken,  which  was  afterward  raised  to  $25,000,  mak- 
ing the  church's  provision  for  its  pastor's  future  amount  to 

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$55,000.  The  council  called  by  the  church  and  pastor  to  con- 
sider his  resignation  met  November  8th,  with  Dr.  Leonard 
Bacon  as  moderator,  and  it  was  agreed  that  the  resignation 
should  take  effect  November  15,  1871. 

Dr.  Thompson  preached  his  farewell  historical  sermon  No- 
vember 1 2th,  and  his  acknowledgment  of  the  provision  made 
for  his  temporal  support  was  read  before  the  society  Novem- 
ber 22d.  "  Was  there  ever  before  just  such  a  parting  between 
a  pastor  and  his  flock  ?  "  he  said.  "  All  the  tender  and  grate- 
ful tribute  which  Death  is  accustomed  to  call  forth,  it  is  per- 
mitted me  to  receive,  and  at  the  same  time  to  enter  upon  a 
new  life  of  hope." 

The  following  letter  was  written  the  day  his  resignation 
took  effect: 

New  York,  November  15,  1871. 

My  dear  Mr.  Coffin  :  Will  you  be  so  good  as  to  request 
for  me  a  letter  of  dismission  from  the  Broadway  Tabernacle 
Church  to  the  Dom-Kirche,  Berlin,  Prussia? 

It  pains  me  deeply  to  sever  the  last  tie  of  formal  connec- 
tion with  the  church  of  my  love,  my  hope,  my  joy,  my  life ; 
but  my  only  ecclesiastical  standing  now  is  in  my  church  mem- 
bership, and  my  view  is  that  this  should  always  be  main- 
tained in  the  place  where  one  resides.  I  do  not  expect  ever 
to  be  able  to  take  up  my  residence  again  in  New  York.  There 
is  talk  of  organizing  an  American  church  in  Berlin,  and  I 
wish  to  be  ready  to  do  my  part  as  a  private  member.  Mean- 
time I  take  a  letter  to  an  evangelical  church. 

In  sacrificing  the  sentiment  of  a  formal  union  I  shall  realize 
more  fully  the  strength  of  the  spiritual  tie  that  binds  us  in 
Christ.  Truly  yours, 

Joseph  P.  Thompson. 

Relieved  of  temporal  anxieties  through  the  generosity  of 
his  people,  Dr.  Thompson  withdrew  to  Berlin,  Germany,  where 
he  planned  to  spend  his  remaining  years  of  life  in  the  quiet 
pursuit  of  Oriental  study.  He  had  in  mind  a  work  upon  Egypt 
for  which  he  had  made  copious  notes,  but  the  exigencies  of 
pressing  public  topics  prevented  his  carrying  out  the  work. 
He  became  the  leading  international  representative  of  America 
in  Europe.     He  devoted  all  the  time  his  health  would  permit 

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him  to  work,  to  the  service  of  his  country  and  his  country- 
men abroad,  to  the  reform  and  codification  of  the  laws  of 
nations,  to  advance  and  support  the  honor,  the  policy,  and 
the  actions  of  his  country  abroad.  In  the  words  of  Dr.  Bacon, 
written  after  his  death: 

"  The  most  remarkable  illustration  of  dominancy  of  the  mind  over 
the  enfeebled  and  wearied  body  which  he  ever  gave  is  that  which  he 
has  shown  in  these  last  years  when  with  strength  almost  gone  and 
brain  half  broken  he  has  still  been  interpreting  Germany  to  this  coun- 
try, this  country  to  Germany  and  both  to  England.  Perhaps  no  other 
equal  period  of  his  life  has  been  more  full  of  useful  labor." 

In  August,  1879,  while  in  London,  where  he  had  gone  with 
a  view  of  attending  the  meeting  of  the  Association  for  the 
Reform  and  Codification  of  the  Laws  of  Nations,  he  was  pros- 
trated with  sudden  illness.  His  wife  hurried  to  his  bedside, 
and  at  his  urgent  request  he  was  taken  back,  by  slow  and 
cautious  stages,  to  his  home  in  Berlin.  At  first  there  seemed 
to  be  temporary  gain,  and  on  his  sixtieth  birthday  he  tele- 
graphed to  his  son  in  America,  "  Creeping  upward  slowly. 
Blessings  on  my  children.  Sixty."  After  that  he  declined 
gradually.  Almost  his  last  act  had  been  to  prepare  and  for- 
ward to  the  Evangelical  Alliance,  at  Basle,  an  eloquent  pro- 
test against  religious  persecution  in  Austria.  Being  told  that 
the  Alliance  had  adopted  his  memorial  to  the  Emperor  of 
Austria,  he  looked  down  at  his  paralyzed  arm  and  said,  "  Given 
one  more  stroke  for  liberty  with  this  right  hand !  "  After 
several  weeks  of  pain  and  restlessness  came  two  or  three  days 
of  unconsciousness,  and  on  the  morning  of  September  20th, 
the  end.  His  wife,  his  youngest  son,  Dr.  William  Gilman 
Thompson,  and  his  wife's  brother,  Rev.  Dr.  Edward  W.  Gil- 
man,  were  with  him  at  the  last,  and  Dr.  Gilman  remained  to 
conduct  the  funeral  service. 

The  flag  of  his  country  draped  the  study  walls. 

"  Dead  he  lay  among  his  books, 
The  peace  of  God  was  in  his  looks ;  " 

crowns  of  flowers,  palm  branches,  and  growing  plants  sur- 
rounded him.    Statesmen,  professors,  and  diplomats,  and  many 

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American  residents  to  whom  he  had  proved  a  friend,  gath- 
ered to  pay  the  last  service  to  the  dead.  His  body  rests  in 
the  Jerusalem  Church-yard  not  far  from  the  grave  of  Mendels- 
sohn, under  the  shade  of  lindens  and  locusts. 

Dr.  Thompson  left  four  children — two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters— but  one  of  whom,  Dr.  William  G.  Thompson,  is  now 
living.  His  wife  returned  to  America,  and  was  until  her  death, 
December  24,  1892,  connected  with  the  Tabernacle  Church. 
His  library  of  Oriental  and  archaeological  works,  especially 
valuable  in  the  department  of  Egyptology,  he  gave  to  the 
American  Oriental  Society,  of  which  he  was  a  member. 

Very  many  learned,  patriotic,  benevolent,  and  religious  so- 
cieties with  which  he  had  been  connected,  both  in  Europe  and 
America,  offered  resolutions  of  respect  for  his  memory,*  and 
the  press,  secular  and  religious,  said  many  true  and  kind 
things  in  his  praise.  A  tablet  was  set  up  in  the  Tabernacle 
to  his  memory,  but  his  most  lasting  memorial  was  written 
in  the  hearts  and  the  lives  of  his  people. 

"J.  P.  T.t 

"  Restless  brain  and  dauntless  will, 

Heart  that  throbbed  with  hope  and  pride, 
Mind  that  bent  to  drink  its  fill 
Every  font  of  truth  beside. 

"  Eyes  emitting  starry  gleams 

From  the  depths  wherein  they  dwelt, 
Lips  on  which  a  thousand  themes 
Into  eloquence  would  melt. 

"  Hand  of  hero,  scholar,  friend 
Ready  aye  with  pen  and  deed 
Truth  to  champion,  or  to  lend 
Help  to  weakness  or  to  need. 

"  Brave  and  tender,  frank  and  pure, 
Such  was  he  the  well  beloved, 
Whom  our  love  shall  hold  secure 
Though  from  outward  sight  removed." 

*  Appendix,  I. 

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CHAPTER  VII. 
THE  THIRD   PASTOR,   WILLIAM   MACKERGO   TAYLOR. 

Dr.  Thompson  left  a  united  church  of  five  hundred  and 
seventy-eight  members,  with  well  and  newly  organized  de- 
partments and  charities,  and  a  City  Mission,  Bethany,  already 
established  in  Northwestern  Hall,  at  the  corner  of  Thirty- 
eighth  Street  and  Ninth  Avenue. 

The  church  made  no  delay  in  choosing  his  successor.  The 
previous  April  the  Rev.  William  M.  Taylor,  pastor  of  the 
United  Presbyterian  Church,  Derby  Road,  Bootle,  near  Liver- 
pool, England,  had  taken  for  more  than  two  months  the  pas- 
toral work  of  Dr.  Storrs  of  Brooklyn.  Mr.  A.  Baxter,  an 
officer  in  Dr.  Storrs's  church,  was  the  American  head  of  a 
business  house  of  which  Mrs.  Taylor's  brother  was  the  Eng- 
lish partner.  Mr.  Baxter,  when  visiting  in  his  partner's  home, 
had  met  Mr.  Taylor,  and  it  was  through  these  business  men 
that  a  meeting  had  been  brought  about  between  the  two  clergy- 
men in  Liverpool,  and  Mr.  Taylor  engaged  to  supply  the  pul- 
pit of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims  for  ten  weeks.  Mr.  Taylor 
remained  during  that  period  in  Brooklyn,  at  the  house  of  Mr. 
Baxter,  conducting  all  the  services  as  acting  pastor.  For  ten 
Sundays  the  church  was  filled,  much  of  the  time  crowded  to 
its  utmost  capacity.  Toward  the  end  of  his  engagement  a 
plan  was  set  on  foot  to  build  a  huge  tabernacle  in  New  York 
that  should  seat  several  thousand  people,  where  he  should  be 
engaged  to  preach.*  At  the  close  of  his  work  in  Brooklyn 
Mr.  Taylor  received  a  presentation  of  plate  from  the  congre- 
gation in  appreciation  of  his  services. 

Although  Mr.  Taylor  had  never  been  heard  in  the  Broad- 
way Tabernacle,  and  hardly  more  than  two  or  three  of  the 

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church  had  attended  any  service  that  he  had  conducted,  his 
name  and  fame  were  well  known  to  the  church  and  society. 
The  committee  upon  which  was  placed  the  responsibility  of 
nominating  a  pastor  for  the  church  was  an  able  one,  composed 
of  five  of  its  leading  men:  Austin  Abbott,  John  Gray,  Caleb 
B.  Knevals,  J.  H.  Washburn,  Thomas  W.  Whittemore.  In 
its  report  this  committee  said: 

"  Mr.  Taylor,  now  the  pastor  of  a  Presbyterian  church  at  Bootle,  a 
suburb  of  Liverpool,  visited  this  country  the  past  season,  and  is  prob- 
ably so  well  known  by  reputation  to  most  of  the  church  and  society  as 
to  make  it  unnecessary  to  speak  of  his  attractiveness  and  power  as  a 
preacher  of  the  Gospel.  Two  of  your  committee,  Messrs.  Gray  and 
Knevals,  who  have  heard  him,  can  speak  upon  this  point.  The  other 
members  of  your  committee  have  made  careful  inquiries  respecting  Mr. 
Taylor's  qualifications  among  leading  ministers  and  laymen  of  our  own 
denomination  who  know  him  personally  and  have  observed  his  labors. 
The  unanimous  testimony  thus  elicited  has  satisfied  us  that  Mr.  Taylor 
is  not  only  an  eloquent  and  attractive  preacher,  but  a  man  of  deep  and 
earnest  piety  who  exerts  a  positive  and  efficient  influence,  eminently 
successful  both  in  the  conversion  of  souls,  the  nurture  of  Christians, 
and  the  upbuilding  of  the  church;  that  his  general  religious  views  are 
in  harmony  with  those  held  by  this  church ;  that  in  scholarship,  culture, 
and  spirit  he  is  well  adapted  to  the  congregation,  and  that  he  will  be 
most  cordially  welcomed  by  the  pastors  and  leading  members  of  our 
sister  churches  as  an  accession  of  strength  not  only  to  our  church,  but 
to  our  communion." 

The  committee  further  stated  that  Mr.  Taylor's  expressed 
pleasure  with  much  he  had  seen  in  America  the  previous  sum- 
mer, gave  encouragement  to  hope  that  he  would  consider  the 
call  favorably. 

The  church  and  society  felt  no  hesitation  in  extending  the 
invitation  to  Mr.  Taylor.  The  call  was  formally  agreed  upon 
and  given  in  November,  1871.  Dr.  Thompson  strongly  fa- 
vored the  choice  and  stood  ready  to  use  his  influence  with  the 
pastor  elect,  and  he  willingly  embraced  the  opportunity  to  do 
one  more  service  for  the  people  of  his  love.  The  society  re- 
quested him  to  stop  in  Liverpool  on  his  way  to  Berlin  and 
urge  and  enforce  their  call  upon  the  man  they  had  chosen  to 

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be  his  successor.  Mr.  Taylor  naturally  hesitated  to  accept  the 
charge  of  a  church  none  of  whose  members  were  personally 
known  to  him;  but  his  interviews  with  Dr.  Thompson  made 
the  way  much  clearer.  It  was  a  delicate  task  for  Dr.  Thomp- 
son to  undertake,  but  no  one  could  have  done  it  better,  and 
in  his  formal  letter  of  acceptance,  written  on  December  29, 
1 87 1,  Mr.  Taylor  referred  to  Dr.  Thompson's  message  and 
the  manner  of  its  delivery: 

"  The  frank,  cordial,  and  brotherly  manner  in  which  he  dealt  with  me 
will  never  fade  from  my  remembrance ;  and  now  that  I  have  consented 
to  take  his  place,  his  visit  will  always  be  in  my  mind  like  the  assurance 
of  God  to  Joshua,  when  he  said,  '  As  I  was  with  Moses  so  I  will  be 
with  thee.'  " 

"  It  chanced — Eternal  God  that  chance  did  guide." 

that  many  things  in  his  late  visit  to  America  had  impressed 
Mr.  Taylor  most  favorably  with  respect  to  American  people, 
churches,  and  institutions  generally.  The  time  of  his  visit 
was  opportune  for  attendance  on  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Chicago,  the  anniversary  of  the 
American  Bible  Society,  a  social  gathering  of  the  American 
Congregational  Union,  the  anniversary  exercises  of  Yale  Theo- 
logical Seminary  and  other  universities,  and  he  had  the  com- 
panionship of  the  Rev.  Edward  Hassan,  now  of  Salisbury, 
late  of  Wavertree,  a  ministerial  friend  and  associate  who  had 
accompanied  him  from  Liverpool.  Their  homeward  journey 
had  been  made  by  way  of  Boston,  Albany,  Saratoga,  Niagara, 
Hamilton,  Toronto,  Montreal,  and  Quebec,  and  in  several  of 
these  towns  public  religious  services  had  been  held  which  the 
visitors  attended.  At  Albany  they  had  been  met  by  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims  (with  his  daughter),  who 
claimed  the  privilege  of  being  their  host  until  they  reached 
the  Canada  side  at  Niagara.  Arriving  at  their  hotel  near  mid- 
night, Mr.  Hassan  reports  that: 

"  after  sitting  for  a  short  time  on  the  balcony  of  the  hotel,  engaged 
in  quiet,  grateful  conversation  within  sound  of  the  Falls  and  awe- 
stricken  by  our  general  surroundings,  it  was  suggested  that  we  should 

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join  in  prayer.  Dr.  Taylor  led  in  prayer,  a  never-to-be-forgotten  prayer 
— simple  in  its  terms,  but  comprehensive,  fervent,  blending  thanksgiving 
for  the  loving-kindness  and  tender  mercy  which  had  enriched  and 
blessed  our  lives  hitherto,  and  supplications  for  the  guidance  and  bless- 
ings of  Almighty  God  in  our  diverse  ways  for  the  future :  a  prayer 
abundantly  answered  in  the  experience  of  all." 

These  and  many  other  pleasant  impressions  had  rendered 
Mr.  Taylor  kindly  disposed  to  such  overtures  as  Dr.  Thomp- 
son made  in  behalf  of  the  Tabernacle  Church,  and  his  experi- 
ences in  Liverpool  had  fitted  him  for  responsibilities  such  as 
life  in  New  York  was  sure  to  bring.  He  said  in  relation  to 
the  call: 

"  When  the  invitation  came  to  me  and  I  laid  it  before  my  officers  they 
said :  '  There  is  no  place  in  England  for  which  we  should  give  you  up, 
but  we  dare  not  hinder  you  from  taking  such  work  as  that  in  New  York.' 
Men  who  said  this  said  it  with  tears  standing  in  their  eyes  at  the  thought 
of  parting  with  me."  * 

The  call  of  the  Tabernacle  Church  Mr.  Taylor  accepted  De- 
cember 29th.    In  his  letter  of  that  date  he  says: 

"  As  far  as  I  myself  am  concerned,  I  cannot  but  feel  slightly  anxious 
when  I  remember  that  the  people  have  never  heard  me,  and  when  I 
think  that  they  may,  perhaps,  be  expecting  from  me  that  which  I  can- 
not give.  Nevertheless  I  will  come  among  you  to  preach  Christ  cruci- 
fied, and  I  am  sure  that  I  shall  find  that  the  attraction  of  the  cross  is 
as  strong  in  New  York  as  it  is  anywhere  else.  It  will  be  my  constant 
aim  to  hide  myself  behind  my  Master,  and  my  hope  is  that  you  may  in 
all  my  ministrations  forget  the  minister  in  the  importance  of  his  mes- 
sage, '  hearing,  indeed,  the  voice,  but  seeing  no  man.'  " 

Mr.  Taylor  made  no  delay  in  taking  up  his  new  duties. 
He  arrived  in  New  York  on  March  1st,  and  by  the  second 
Sabbath  of  that  month  began  his  pastorate.  But  when,  with 
wife  and  children,  he  found  himself  in  the  dreary  month  of 
February  in  mid-ocean,  with  his  heart  turning  toward  the 
church  and  the  dismantled  home  he  had  left  behind,  and  with 
absolutely  no  acquaintance  with  the  people  to  whom  he  was 
going,  and  no  knowledge  of  the  home  to  which  he  was  tak- 
*  The  Quiver,  p.  100,  December,  1888. 
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ing  his  household,  nine  souls  in  all,  it  is  no  wonder  that  this 
heart  misgave  him  and  that  he  passed  some  gloomy  hours. 
But  his  faith  was  too  robust  to  leave  him  long  in  doubt.  He 
says,  again :  * 

"  My  coming  ultimately  was  to  me  almost  like  Abraham's  obedience 
to  the  call  of  God  when  he  went  out  '  not  knowing  whither  he  went.' 
...  I  did  not  know  the  way  by  which  He  was  leading  me;  but  I 
knew  Him,  and  the  result  was  that  I  knew  Him  better  than  ever." 

At  this  time  Mr.  Taylor  was  in  the  prime  of  life.  He  was 
the  son  of  Peter  and  Isobel  (Mackergo)  Taylor,  of  Kilmar- 
nock, in  Ayrshire,  Scotland.  He  was  born  in  one  of  the  side 
streets  off  King  Street,  Kilmarnock,  on  October  23,  1829. 
His  father  was  a  merchant  or  shopkeeper,  and  a  member  of 
the  Secession  Church.  Both  father  and  mother  were  pious 
people,  possessed  of  remarkable  intelligence,  and  well  versed 
in  the  theological  questions  of  the  times.  The  family  traced 
relationship  with  the  Howies  of  Lockgoin,  the  lonely  home  of 
the  Covenanters  and  shelter  of  the  persecuted.  Like  Dr. 
Thompson,  he  took  satisfaction  in  his  Covenanter  ancestry,  and 
in  later  years  visited  the  spot,  and  had  special  pleasure  in  tak- 
ing the  various  members  of  his  family  to  catch  inspiration  from 
it.  Mr.  Taylor  studied  at  the  academy  in  his  native  town. 
The  boy  was  distinguished  for  his  love  of  learning  and  the 
rapid  progress  he  made  in  almost  every  department.  He  car- 
ried off  many  literary  honors  and  was  very  early  called  to  be 
an  assistant  teacher.  He  graduated  at  the  University  of  Glas- 
gow when  he  was  but  twenty  years  of  age.  An  attic  above 
his  father's  house  was  his  study,  and  not  infrequently,  when 
some  procession  was  passing  or  important  event  taking  place 
in  the  main  street,  he  could  be  seen  pushing  up  the  skylight 
window  and  peering  over  the  slates,  satisfied  with  this  brief 
interruption  to  his  work  without  desiring  to  mingle  with  the 
crowd.  He  entered  the  Divinity  Hall  of  the  United  Presby- 
terian Church,  the  year  after  the  Union,  when  Drs.  Brown, 
Eadie,  M'Michael,  Harper,  and  Lindsay  were  professors.     He 

*At  the  End  of  Twenty  Years.     Sermon  preached  March  ij,  i8q2,  p.  6. 

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had  great  respect  and  veneration  for  these  teachers,  and  in 
his  work  on  the  Scottish  Pulpit,  which  has  been  called  his 
most  charming  volume,  he  made  sketches  of  prominent  divines 
who  were  in  their  prime  when  he  was  a  student ;  among  them 
the  character  and  work  of  Drs.  Brown  and  Eadie  are  lov- 
ingly depicted.  In  the  Divinity  Hall  he  gained  distinguished 
honors  and  was  held  in  high  esteem  by  his  professors  and  fel- 
low-students. The  sessions  of  the  Divinity  Hall  at  that  time 
were  restricted  to  the  months  of  August  and  September  in 
each  year,  and  during  the  intervals  he  was  engaged  in  teach- 
ing and  on  the  staff  of  the  Kilmarnock  Journal  as  reporter, 
and,  later,  as  sub-editor.  During  his  theological  course  he  was 
under  the  supervision  of  the  United  Presbytery  of  Ayrshire. 

There  were  certain  young  friends  whom  he  made  during 
these  years  of  ministerial  training  to  whom  he  remained 
warmly  attached  all  his  days,  visiting  them  summers,  while 
taking  his  vacation  abroad,  and  insuring  the  companionship 
of  his  friend  the  Rev.  Mr.  Kirkwood,  of  Troon,  in  whose  pul- 
pit he  appeared  season  after  season,  by  the  promise,  "  Pla}' 
with  me  this  week,  and  I  will  preach  for  you  Sunday."  Large 
audiences  were  attracted  when  he  preached  in  Ayrshire  on 
these  annual  visits,  for,  to  the  old  friends,  no  matter  what 
honors  he  achieved,  he  was  to  the  last,  always  Willie  Taylor. 

Mr.  Taylor  was  licensed  as  preacher  on  September  14,  1852, 
by  the  United  Presbytery  of  Ayrshire,  but  as  early  as  Sep- 
tember, 1850,  he  had  been  allowed,  according  to  the  custom 
of  the  United  Presbyterians,  to  preach  in  behalf  of  missions. 
That  first  missionary  sermon,  repeated  many  times  afterward, 
and  the  forerunner  of  many  other  missionary  pleas,  was  the 
means  of  bringing  in  a  rich  harvest  for  the  treasury  of  missions. 
The  amount  of  the  collection  on  its  first  delivery  delighted  him, 
and  he  wrote  gleefully  to  his  betrothed  wife  that  "  it  spake  well 
for  the  preacher,  but  better  for  his  hearers." 

As  a  preacher  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church  Mr.  Tay- 
lor at  once  came  to  the  front,  and  after  a  few  months  re- 
ceived a  call  from  Sanquhar  and  another  from  Kilmaurs. 
Though  a  much  larger  salary  was  offered  by  the  former,  he 

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refused  it  and  was  settled  in  Kilmatirs — an  historical  congre- 
gation in  connection  with  the  denomination.  He  was  ordained 
at  Kilmaurs,  where  his  grandfather  had  been  an  elder  and  his 
father  baptized,  on  June  28,  1853.  Being  only  two  miles  from 
his  native  city,  he  did  not  shrink  from  the  severe  ordeal  to 
which  a  prophet  in  such  circumstances  is  exposed.  While 
here  he  married,  October  4th,  Miss  Jessie  Steedman,  like  him- 
self a  native  of  Kilmarnock,  one  of  whose  brothers  had  been 
a  fellow-student  at  the  College  and  the  Divinity  Hall,  and  it 
was  to  the  beautiful  manse  of  Kilmaurs  which  he  describes  * 
as  "  one  of  the  sweetest  nooks  to  be  seen  in  Scotland  or  any 
other  country,"  that  he  led  home  his  bride. 

It  was  impossible,  however,  that  Kilmaurs  could  long  retain 
his  services.  He  had  labored  there  with  such  zeal  and  success 
that  the  Rev.  Mr.  Robertson,  of  Irvine,  called  the  attention  of 
the  newly  formed  United  Presbyterian  Church  of  Derby  Road, 
Bootle,  to  his  prominent  abilities,  and  they  afterward  invited 
him  to  become  their  pastor.  He  accepted  the  call  on  October 
23,  1854:  t 

"  This  was  the  scene  of  his  labors  for  sixteen  years.  The  field  seemed 
decidedly  unpromising.  A  suburb  of  Liverpool  and  the  terminus  of  the 
Cunard  Line  of  steamships,  the  families  of  seamen,  engineers,  and  me- 
chanics formed  the  bulk  of  the  population.  No  attempt  at  social  or 
religious  improvement  had  been  made  within  its  limits  previous  to  Dr. 
Taylor's  call  to  the  charge  of  the  church  and  he  found  it  literally  a 
field  for  missionary  labor.  The  first  services  were  held  in  a  stable  loft 
and  the  number  of  members  the  society  could  muster  was  only  thirty, 
but  under  his  charge  the  society  rapidly  increased,  and  in  1869  it  wor- 
shipped in  a  fine  stone  church  large  enough  to  hold  twelve  hundred 
people."  t 

The  death  of  the  Prince  Consort  occurred  in  December, 
1 861.  Dr.  Taylor's  sermon  the  following  Sunday  was  a  not- 
able one.  Although  the  text  had  not  been  chosen  nor  pen 
put  to  paper  until  seven  o'clock  on  Saturday  evening,  it  was 

*  Church  Building  Quarterly,  April,  1875,  p.  67. 

f  This  account  of  Dr.  Taylor's  early  years  is  taken  mainly  from  the  Kilmar- 
nock Standard  and  from  another  Ayrshire  journal. 
%  Harper's  Weekly,  July  18,  1874. 

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written  and  delivered  memoriter  on  Sunday,  and  was  the  only 
sermon  on  that  event,  preached  in  Liverpool,  that  was  pub- 
lished in  full  by  the  daily  press.  Copies  of  the  sermon  were 
in  such  demand  that,  after  a  few  days,  it  was  reprinted  sepa- 
rately. That  sermon  brought  the  preacher  more  prominently 
before  the  public. 

From  that  time  Mr.  Taylor  showed  great  aptitude  in  seiz- 
ing upon  topics  that  stirred  the  public  mind.  He  was  more 
and  more  sought  after  for  special  occasions  by  churches  of 
all  denominations,  and  his  aid  was  eagerly  claimed  for  re- 
ligious and  philanthropic  enterprises  of  every  sort  in  and  about 
Liverpool.  The  Liverpool  Seaman's  Friend  Society,  in  which 
he  would  be  naturally  interested,  the  Town  Mission,  the 
Auxiliary  Bible  Society,  and  like  institutions  did  not  ask  his 
help  in  vain. 

Possibly  some  of  the  best  though  least  conspicuous  services 
of  Mr.  Taylor,  during  his  life  in  Liverpool,  were  rendered  at 
the  social  meetings  of  neighbor  churches.  At  such  meetings 
the  congregation  would  be  fully  represented  and  in  its  happi- 
est mood.  The  presence  of  Mr.  Taylor  never  failed  to  in- 
crease the  good-humor  of  the  assembly.  His  speech,  looked 
forward  to  with  eagerness,  always  surpassed  the  anticipations 
of  his  hearers.  The  children  would  even  become  boisterous  in 
their  applause  of  the  homely  illustrations  with  which  he  en- 
forced the  lessons  he  wished  to  teach. 

Dr.  Taylor  valued  very  highly  the  fellowship  of  his  min- 
isterial brethren  in  Liverpool.  In  his  published  "  Remi- 
niscences of  Professor  William  Graham,  D.D.,"  a  devoted 
friend,  he  writes: 

"  A  remarkable  body  of  men  the  non-conforming  ministers 
at  that  time  were."  He  particularizes  and  describes  some  of 
them  and  says  of  the  association :  "  It  was  a  rare  treat  to 
be  a  member  of  such  a  band,  and  I  never  knew  how  much 
it  was  to  me  until  the  Atlantic  rolled  between  us."  The  sim- 
ple objects  of  the  "  Club,"  as  it  was  called,  Dr.  Taylor  set 
forth  as  follows :  "  There  were  no  papers  read  and  no  dis- 
cussions carried  on,  but,  though  now  and  then  we  talked  of 

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The  Third  Pastor,  William  Mackergo  Taylor 

how  we  were  to  act  on  some  great  public  question,  the  ob- 
ject we  set  before  us  was  simply  the  enjoyment  of  two  or 
three  hours  of  social  fellowship,  and  these  occasions  were 
greatly  relished  by  us  all." 

Dr.  Taylor  must  have  missed  the  social  element  in  the  more 
formal  ministers'  clubs  this  side  of  the  ocean,  where  papers 
are  read  and  discussed,  and  men  meet  to  study  problems  rather 
than  to  promote  friendliness. 

Many  proposals  came  to  Mr.  Taylor  while  in  Bootle,  from 
one  quarter  and  another,  to  change  the  scene  of  his  pastoral 
labors;  of  course  his  people  were  likewise  disturbed.  So  the 
invitation  to  the  Church  of  the  Pilgrims  seemed  to  come  as 
a  relief,  giving  change  of  scene,  and  foreign  travel  without 
interference  with  his  own  church  relations.  No  thought  of 
its  possible  results,  or  that  he  might,  within  a  year,  be  set- 
tled in  the  new  world,  seems  to  have  crossed  his  mind.*  As 
has  been  said,  the  new  pastor  reached  New  York  March  1st. 
The  usual  March  communion  service  had  been  put  off,  thus 
enabling  Mr.  Taylor  and  his  people  to  sit  together  at  the 
Lord's  table  on  the  first  Sabbath  that  he  was  with  them.  His 
installation  took  place  a  month  later,  April  9th.  The  council 
was  composed  of  representatives  from  the  Congregational 
churches  of  the  vicinity,  and  ministers  belonging  to  the  New 
York  and  Brooklyn  Conference;  also  to  the  Central  Church 
of  Boston,  the  First  of  Pittsfield,  the  Central  of  Philadelphia, 
the  Second  of  Bridgeport,  and  Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  D.D.,  of 
New  Haven,  and  Rev.  Roswell  D.  Hitchcock,  D.D.,  of  New 
York  City.  Other  sister  churches  were  represented;  the  Bap- 
tist, by  Rev.  Thomas  D.  Anderson,  D.D. ;  the  Episcopal,  by 
Rev.  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  Jr.;  the  Presbyterian,  by  Rev.  John 
Hall,  D.D.,  and  Rev.  Rolling  A.  Sawyer;  the  Reformed,  by  ^ 
Rev.  William  Ormiston,  D.D. ;  and  the  United  Presbyterian, 
by  Rev.  George  D.  Mathews.  The  sermon  was  preached  by 
the  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  whose  text  was  Mark  16  :  19, 

*  In  this  summary  of  Dr.  Taylor's  life  before  coming  to  America  I  have  drawn 
from  a  paper  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hassan  and  from  material  and  information  furnished 
by  Dr.  Taylor's  daughter,  Miss  Isobel  M.  Taylor.— S.  H.  W. 

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20 :  "  So  then,  after  the  Lord  had  spoken  unto  them,  he  was 
received  up  to  heaven,  and  sat  on  the  right  hand  of  God. 

"  And  they  went  forth  and  preached  everywhere,  the  Lord 
working  with  them,  and  confirming  the  word  with  signs  fol- 
lowing." 

Others  who  joined  in  the  service  were  Rev.  Leonard  Bacon, 
D.D.,  who  offered  the  installing  prayer;  Rev.  Henry  M. 
Storrs,  D.D.,  who  gave  the  charge  to  the  pastor;  Rev.  Will- 
iam Ives  Budington,  D.D.,  the  right  hand  of  fellowship,  and 
Rev.  George  B.  Bacon,  of  Orange,  N.  J.,  who  gave  the  charge 
to  the  people. 

The  society  had  voted,  the  previous  November,  to  pay  Mr. 
Taylor  a  salary  of  $9,000,  the  same  amount  voted  to  Dr. 
Thompson  in  1869,  and  to  meet  the  expense  of  moving  his 
household  to  New  York ;  but  the  trustees  having  been  recently 
brought  to  realize  the  necessity  of  providing  for  their  pastor 
when  disabled  by  illness,  determined  to  make  provision  be- 
forehand. Therefore,  in  the  first  year  of  Dr.  Taylor's  pas- 
torate, the  society  not  only  paid  his  rent  and  raised  his  salary 
to  $10,000,  but  they  secured  a  twenty-year  endowment  policy 
upon  his  life  for  $25,000;  agreeing  to  pay  the  annual  pre- 
mium of  $1,238.11  so  long  as  he  continued  their  pastor. 

Both  Yale  and  Amherst  gave  to  Mr.  Taylor,  in  June,  1872, 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  the  same  year  the  Ameri- 
can Home  Missionary  Society  elected  him  to  membership  in 
their  Executive  Committee. 

It  had  long  seemed  necessary  to  make  certain  important 
changes  in  the  Tabernacle  building,  and  it  was  thought  best  to 
put  the  work  through  at  once,  so  that  the  church  should  be 
in  the  best  of  order  when  parish  activities  were  renewed  after 
the  summer  vacation.  In  May  the  society  voted  to  remove 
from  the  body  of  the  house  the  six  large  stone  pillars  that  ob- 
structed more  than  two  hundred  sittings,  and  the  low  roof 
over  the  aisles ;  to  construct  a  new  roof ;  also  to  decorate  and 
refurnish  the  house  and  make  sundry  improvements  in  light- 
ing, heating,  and  ventilating. 

Churches  in  the  vicinity  proved  kindly  neighbors,  and  from 

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the  time  the  work  began,  early  in  June,  until  the  middle  of 
July,  on  Sunday  evenings,  the  Tabernacle  services  were  held 
in  the  Brick  Church,  Thirty-seventh  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue ; 
and  the  morning  service  in  Association  Hall.  After  the  sum- 
mer vacation,  morning  service  was  held  in  the  Tabernacle 
chapel,  and,  Sunday  evenings,  the  church  worshipped  in  the 
Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  on  Thirty-fourth  Street  until  the 
work  was  completed.  The  Tabernacle  was  reopened  Sabbath 
morning,  November  24th.  The  changes  enlarged  the  seat- 
ing capacity  of  the  house  and  rendered  it  much  more  cheerful, 
airy,  and  attractive. 

On  November  24,  1869,  tne  church  had  adopted  a  plan  for 
aggressive  work  outside  the  limits  of  its  own  congregation, 
in  order  to  utilize  the  energy  and  ability  of  many  active  Chris- 
tian men  upon  whom  no  special  church  responsibility  rested. 
This  plan  was  followed  in  a  general  way  until  1886.  By  this 
arrangement  a  manager  was  elected  annually  for  the  following 
departments :  Mission  Schools ;  Visitation  of  the  Poor  and  Sick 
in  mission  districts ;  Charitable  Contributions  for  work  in  these 
departments;  Strangers,  with  special  regard  to  the  reception 
of  strangers  at  the  church  services.  These  managers  were 
authorized  each  to  organize  a  corps  of  assistants  from  such 
members  of  the  society  as  would  willingly  co-operate  in  his 
department,  and  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  church  they 
were  to  report  progress.  The  managers  with  the  pastor  and 
the  treasurer  of  the  church  constituted  a  Board  of  Consulta- 
tion for  the  work  of  each  department,  and  for  disbursing  funds 
raised  for  such  work.  The  board  was  not  authorized  to  enter 
upon  any  new  mission  field  without  the  consent  of  the  church. 
The  first  managers  appointed  were  Messrs.  Ranney,  Bates, 
Abernethy,  and  Winterburn.  In  a  short  time  a  "  Department 
of  Education  "  was  added  to  these  "  Departments  of  Missions 
and  Charities,"  the  special  object  of  which  was  to  educate 
young  men  for  the  ministry.  Gradually  the  city-mission  ener- 
gies of  the  church  centred  in  the  Bethany  enterprise,  and  in 
the  new  Chinese  Sunday-school  begun  in  1885.  At  the  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  church,  held  February  3,  1886,  a  Board 

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of  Missions,  consisting  of  a  committee  of  three,  was  substituted 
for  the  Board  of  Managers,  and  for  the  Board  of  Missions 
that  had  been  appointed  on  the  organization  of  the  Bethany 
Church;  the  Department  of  Strangers  was  replaced  by  a  Re- 
ception Committee  of  one,  with  power  to  appoint  his  assistant 
ushers,  and  the  Chinese  work  was  put  in  charge  of  a  committee 
of  three. 

The  attraction  which  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  held  for 
young  men,  and  Dr.  Taylor's  interest  in  the  many  who  thronged 
there,  soon  led  him  to  organize  for  them  a  literary  union 
which,  besides  its  social  service,  afforded  them  an  opportunity 
for  practice  in  debate,  essay  writing,  and  parliamentary  usage. 
In  its  first  year  Dr.  Taylor  gave  before  the  society  a  lecture 
on  "  Books  and  Reading."  This  literary  union  was  reported 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  church  for  half  a  dozen  years. 
In  1878,  when  the  last  record  of  it  is  given,  its  officers  were: 
President,  Mr.  Austin  Abbott;  Vice-President,  Mr.  William 
Ives  Washburn;  Recording  Secretary,  Mr.  G.  W.  Somerin- 
dyke;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Mr.  John  Allyn;  Treasurer, 
Mr.  Irving  R.  Fisher ;  its  directors  were  Dr.  Taylor,  Mr.  John 
H.  Washburn,  Mr.  Clark  Bell,  and  Mr.  George  W.  Hale. 
The  pastor  also  organized  a  Bible  class  and  teachers'  prepara- 
tory meeting  for  Friday  evenings. 

But  Dr.  Taylor  was  not  especially  an  organizer  of  church 
activities.  He  was  a  preacher  of  the  Word,  mighty  in  the 
Scriptures,  and  he  fed  the  flock.  He  made  regular  pas- 
toral calls,  announcing  week  by  week  from  the  pulpit  what 
streets  he  should  traverse  on  his  visiting  days ;  and  in  times 
of  sorrow  he  was  tenderness  itself.  He  had  known  bereave- 
ment in  his  own  household.  By  a  scourge  of  scarlet  fever, 
in  1867,  he  had  lost  little  children,  two  daughters  and  a  son, 
and  through  this  experience  of  grief  he  was  skilled  in  com- 
forting those  who  were  in  any  trouble.  He  brought  them  into 
the  very  presence  of  the  God  of  all  comfort,  and  left  them 
where  they  should  be  partakers  of  the  consolation  as  well  as 
suffering.  But  over  all  and  above  all  he  was  a  preacher.  His 
published  writings  were  for  the  most  part  first  delivered  in 

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the  pulpit  and  were  meant  not  for  theological  experts,  but 
for  the  people.*  Not  a  few  of  them  have  been  translated  into 
Japanese,  Chinese,  Marathi,  and  other  languages.  As  late  as 
1900,  "  Peter  the  Apostle  "  was  translated  and  published  in 
Ahmednagar,  India,  where  it  was  at  once  put  into  active  use, 
and  has  since  been  followed  by  a  translation  of  "  Elijah,  the 
Prophet." 

Doctor  Taylor's  appearance  in  the  pulpit  was  massive,  dig- 
nified, impressive.  He  was  of  medium  height,  but  his  sturdy- 
frame  gave  the  impression  of  great  strength.  He  had  a  noble 
head,  a  serious  face,  sensitive  to  emotion,  with  grave  eyes  that 
could  flash  or  burn  or  twinkle  under  bushy  brows,  enough 
Scotch  fire  to  warm  his  tongue  to  eloquence,  and  of  accent 
and  homeliness  of  diction  to  make  his  speech  picturesque. 
His  voice  was  clear  and  strong,  his  action  unstudied,  energetic, 
at  times  vehement.     In  the  words  of  Dr.  R.  S.  Storrs : 

"  Every  fibre  of  his  being,  physical  and  moral,  came  in  to  contribute 
to  the  intensity  and  power  of  his  utterance.  ...  I  used  often  to 
think  when  I  was  in  the  pulpit  with  him  or  in  the  congregation  before 
him,  that  even  that  mighty  physical  frame  would  be  shaken  to  pieces 
with  the  earnestness,  the  momentum,  the  self-forgetful  intensity  of  his 
tltought  and  utterance.  But  so  it  was  that  he  put  himself  into  other 
lives, — put  his  thought  into  other  minds,  his  feeling  and  purpose  into 
ether  spirits  and  swayed  assemblies  with  his  impressive  and  masterful 
utterance."  f 

Of  set  purpose,  Dr.  Taylor  changed  his  early  argumenta- 
tive style  to  exposition  aided  by  illustration,  using  a  wealth 
of  illustration  not  because  it  was  his  natural  way  of  speaking, 
but  because  it  seemed  to  him  the  most  effective.  He  made 
preaching  his  business.  His  one  aim  was  to  save  men,  to 
build  up  saints.  He  was  a  wide  reader,  and  his  illustrations 
were  gathered  from  a  broad  range  of  subjects.  His  exposi- 
tions were  practical,  helpful  for  every-day  life.  Biblical  scenes 
and  incidents  became  vivid  in  the  sight  of  his  hearers  as  he 
described  them,  and,  thanks  to  his  wonderfully  retentive 
memory  and  to  his  continued  and  constant  Biblical  study,  he 
had  always  at  command  the  very  scriptural  passage  that  could 

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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

throw  the  light  of  revelation  upon  the  truth  he  was  teaching. 
In  his  sermon,  "  At  the  End  of  Twenty  Years,"  Dr.  Taylor 
defined  the  course  of  study  through  which  he  had  taken  his 
church.     He  says: 

"  One  of  the  most  important  duties  of  the  pulpit  is  instruction,  and 
on  one  part  of  each  Lord's  day  up  till  this  present  winter,  when  I  have 
been  prevented  by  considerations  of  health,  I  have  followed  steadily  out 
some  course  of  exposition,  so  that  in  the  years  of  my  ministry  here,  I 
have  expounded  the  larger  portion  of  the  historical  books  of  the  Old 
and  New  Testaments.  Genesis  we  took  with  Abraham,  Jacob  and 
Joseph;  the  other  four  books  of  the  Pentateuch  we  studied  when  our 
theme  was  the  life  of  Moses;  Joshua  we  had  when  we  followed  the 
campaigns  of  that  great  captain.  Many  portions  of  the  books  of  Samuel 
came  into  the  life  of  David;  and  we  had  large  sections  of  the  books 
of  Kings,  when  we  took  up  the  biographies  of  Elijah  and  Elisha.  We 
were  delighted  and  animated  by  the  business  career  of  Nehemiah,  and 
we  followed  with  eager  interest  the  history  of  Esther.  We  spent  some 
weeks  on  Jonah;  and  a  winter  on  the  miscalled  minor  prophets.  In 
the  Gospels  we  took  the  Miracles  and  Parables  of  our  Saviour.  The 
book  of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles  came  almost  entirely  under  our  study 
in  the  lives  of  Peter  and  of  Paul ;  while  we  have  had  discourses  on  the 
whole  of  the  Lord's  Prayer;  on  Peter's  plan  for  character  building; 
and  other  similar  passages  from  the  Epistles.  This  has  been  with  me 
a  matter  of  principle  and  not  of  convenience.  If  I  had  sought  my  own 
ease  I  would  not  have  taken  up  any  such  courses,  for  the  preparation 
of  such  '  Lectures,'  as  they  are  called  in  my  native  land,  costs  far  more 
labor  than  that  of  other  sorts  of  sermons.  But  my  desire  was  to  make 
my  hearers  familiar  with  the  Word  of  God.  I  have  not  preached  about 
it,  but  I  have  preached  out  of  it,  and  I  indulge  the  hope  that  they  who 
followed  me  in  these  Bible  studies  will  often  remember  them  in  after 
days,  and  will  say  regarding  me :  '  He  gave  us  a  new  relish  for  the 
Bible,  for  he  taught  us  to  read  it  with  intelligence  and  self-application.'  " 

He  says  further: 

"  On  the  other  parts  of  the  Lord's  Day  my  subjects  have  been  mis- 
cellaneous, as  God  might  suggest  to  me,  doctrinal  or  practical,  but  it 
has  always  been  my  habit  to  make  them  first  expository,  so  that  in  these 
also,  the  Word  was  uppermost." 

Dr.  Clapp,  in  one  of  his  letters  to  the  Congregationalist 
signed  "  Huntington,"  says  that  Dr.  Taylor's  power  in  the 
scriptures  did  not  appear  only  or  chiefly  in  his  pulpit  dis- 

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courses,  but  that  those  flashes  of  Biblical  illumination  so  char- 
acteristic of  him  quite  as  often  startled  and  surprised  his 
hearers  at  the  mid-week  prayer-meeting. 

Another  testimony  as  to  Dr.  Taylor's  scriptural  insight  is 
given  by  the  ex-president  of  Union  Theological  Seminary, 
Dr.  Thomas  S.  Hastings,  for  a  series  of  years  his  parishioner : 

"  His  way  of  handling  the  Word  of  God — reverently,  scholarly,  prac- 
tically, and  forcefully — was  peculiarly  delightful  to  me.  I  can  never 
forget  the  keen  relish  with  which  he  would  come  to  me  sometimes,  when 
he  thought  he  had  a  fresh  view  of  some  passage  of  scripture,  and  how 
his  heart  warmed  within  him,  and  how  his  face  glowed  as  he  unfolded 
to  me  its  meaning. 

"  He  was  a  remarkable  preacher.  Year  in  and  year  out  as  I  listened 
to  him  I  could  not  help  but  feel  that  this  was  pre-eminently  true.  He 
always  had  an  aim,  and  he  always  worked  his  sermon  toward  that 
aim  with  a  scholarly  carefulness  of  arrangement,  a  force  of  logic  and 
method,  which  made  the  sermon  culminate  to  a  height  and  heat  which 
are  rarely  known  in  pulpit  ministrations.  ...  In  the  pulpit  he  was 
evidently  master  of  his  subject.  He  held  his  aim  constantly  in  view, 
and  every  sentence  was  a  step  toward  that  aim.  I  could  not  help 
writing  to  him  once  in  our  early  association  together  as  pastor  and 
parishioner,  a  brief  note  something  like  this :  '  Charles  Lamb  said  once 
"  I  do  not  know  why  we  should  say  grace  after  meals,  and  not  after 
Milton,"  and  I  feel  like  saying  grace  after  the  sermon  we  had  to-day.' 
Tender  and  beautiful  was  his  response,  full  of  the  overflow  of  his 
great,  warm,  generous  heart." 

A  masculine,  tender  nature  breathed  through  these  sermons 
— manuscript  sermons,  which  he  read,  it  is  true — but  when 
with  utter  self-forgetfulness  he  poured  out  his  soul  through 
them  in  simple  words  that  could  be  "  understanded  of  the  peo- 
ple," those  words,  written  though  they  were,  flashed  straight 
from  the  heart  of  the  preacher  to  the  hearts  of  his  hearers 
and  fairly  drove  them  into  the  kingdom.  Not  only  were  the 
preaching  services  crowded,  but  young  people  of  the  Sunday- 
school  began  to  flock  into  the  church.  The  church  clerk  writes, 
the  year  following  that  of  Dr.  Taylor's  settlement: 

"  It  was  a  joyous  sight  to  see  these  new  disciples  coming  forward  to 
consecrate  themselves  publicly  to  the  work  of  the  Master,  coming,  two 
and  three  at  a  time,  from  one  household ;  parents  coming  because  their 
children  had  shown  them  the  way ;   parents  coming  with  their  children ; 

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husband  and  wife,  brother  and  sister,  coming  hand  in  hand.  These 
scenes  will  long  linger  in  our  memories  and  mark  this  year  as  a  precious 
one  to  us  as  a  church." 

At  the  end  of  twenty  years  Dr.  Taylor  had  admitted  six 
hundred  to  the  church,  on  confession  of  faith. 

Though  the  pew  rentals  were  raised  after  the  Tabernacle 
was  altered  and  renovated,  pews  were  readily  let,  and  the 
manager  of  the  department  of  strangers  was  sorely  tried  in 
his  efforts  to  find  seats  for  the  throng  from  outside  the  so- 
ciety who  pressed  in,  Sunday  after  Sunday,  crowding  the  aisles  ; 
many  standing  throughout  the  entire  service  after  every  seat 
had  been  filled.  In  1876  the  trustees  passed  a  vote  that  any 
seat  not  occupied  at  the  close  of  the  first  anthem  at  each  ser- 
vice might  be  filled  with  strangers,  by  the  ushers.  Mr.  Joel 
E.  Fisher,  who,  until  the  close  of  1886,  managed  this  depart- 
ment, was  obliged,  year  after  year,  to  remind  pew  holders  that 
their  pews  were  reserved  for  them  "  only  until  the  close  of  the 
opening  chant."  Since  1886  the  responsibility  of  receiving 
and  seating  strangers,  whether  met  by  a  "  Reception  Commit- 
tee "  or  a  "  Board  of  Ushers,"  has  devolved  upon  Mr.  Charles 
E.  Whittemore.  From  1876  there  was  a  gradual  rise  in  the 
number  of  pews  let  until  1888,  when  a  decline  set  in,  followed 
in  1898  by  a  rise  that  still  continues. 

According  to  the  rules  of  the  society  any  one  who  has  paid 
for  one  or  more  sittings,  who  is  of  legal  age  and  has  been 
an  attendant  at  the  Tabernacle  for  a  year,  is  registered  as  a 
member  and  is  entitled  to  vote  at  its  meetings.  The  rule  read 
"  every  male  person  "  until  1871,  when,  on  motion  of  Deacon 
W.  H.  Smith,  the  words  were  changed  to  "  any  person." 

A  mortgage  had  been  put  on  the  Tabernacle  property,  in 
1872,  to  raise  the  money  pledged  by  the  society  to  its  former 
pastor;  the  repairs  and  alterations  in  the  church  building 
largely  increased  the  indebtedness  of  the  society.  An  assess- 
ment, on  account  of  the  widening  of  Broadway,  was  contested 
by  the  trustees,  but  decided  adversely  in  1875,  when  the 
amount  due  the  city  with  interest  amounted  to  $18,300.  Four 
thousand  dollars  was  paid  that  year  to  reduce  the  indebted- 

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ness  which  was  reported  at  the  close  of  the  year  as  $106,000. 
This  widening  of  Broadway,  and  the  building  of  the  elevated 
road,  cost  the  trustees  many  anxious  hours.  In  1873  a  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  "  oppose  the  Gilbert  elevated  rail- 
road bill "  at  Albany,  but  that  effort,  too,  was  unsuccessful. 
At  the  annual  meeting  in  1876,  after  a  subscription  of  $50,000 
had  been  paid,  the  debt  was  brought  down  to  $62,000;  in 
1878,  to  $50,000;  in  1880,  to  $41,000.  In  1882,  on  Dr.  Tay- 
lor's tenth  anniversary,  a  subscription  was  raised  of  over  $30,- 
000  toward  building  a  church  for  the  Bethany  Mission,  and 
the  next  year  the  debt  stood  at  $37,000  plus  an  indebtedness 
of  $16,000  on  account  of  the  purchase  of  property  and  the 
building  of  the  Bethany  Church,  making  a  total  of  $53,000. 
In  1885  the  total  was  $50,000;  in  1886,  $47,000.  In  1887, 
on  the  fifteenth  anniversary  of  Dr.  Taylor's  settlement,  after 
the  sermon,  $13,000  was  raised  in  about  fifteen  minutes,  %22,- 
000  having  been  already  pledged.  That  left  the  Thirty-fourth 
Street  property  clear  of  debt,  though  there  was  yet  an  in- 
debtedness of  $10,000  on  Bethany. 

During  these  years  the  society  was  in  various  ways  promot- 
ing the  comfort  of  the  pastor — now  paying  his  cottage  rent, 
now  buying  for  him  a  lot  where  he  might  bury  his  dead,  or 
voting  an  extra  allowance  for  the  travelling  expenses  of  his 
family,  or  his  own  passage  to  Europe,  or  to  the  Ecumenical 
Conference  in  London,  or  $1,000  for  extra  expenses,  and 
steadily  advancing  his  salary  until  by  1881  it  stood  at  $16,- 
000.  But  the  church  debt  had  been  from  the  first  a  burden 
on  Dr.  Taylor's  mind.  A  few  extracts  from  a  letter  writ- 
ten by  him  to  an  absent  member  of  the  Tabernacle  Church, 
who  had  asked  for  a  letter  of  dismissal,  illustrates  this,  as  well 
as  another  point  upon  which  he  had  strong  convictions.  The 
letter  is  dated  September  19,  1878.    He  says: 

"  I  cannot  write  you  on  the  subject  without  saying  how  heartily  I 
approve  the  course  you  are  following.  Of  course  I  am  sorry  to  have 
the  connection  subsisting  between  us  heretofore  thus  formally  ended, 
but  I  know  it  can  never  be  really  ended,  and  I  am  sure  that  it  will  be 
more  for  your  good,  more  for  your  efficiency  as  a  Christian  worker 

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and  a  great  deal  more  encouraging  to  Mr.  that  you  are  enrolled 

among  his  church  members.  I  have  always  held  that  as  a  general  rule 
it  is  best  for  people  to  connect  themselves  with  the  church  nearest  to 
their  stated  residence,  and  I  have  a  kind  of  contempt  for  those  city 
ministers  who  make  it  difficult  for  their  members  to  ask  a  dismission 
when  they  go  into  the  country,  merely  that  they  may  keep  the  number 
on  their  own  roll  up  to  some  great  figure.  So  while  it  is  never  pleasant 
to  part  with  members,  I  am  yet  glad  that  you  have  resolved  to  go,  with 

all  your  heart  into  church.     I  may  add  that  I  envy  you  the  high 

privilege  of  belonging  to  a  church  that  has  no  debt.  Alas !  the  Taber- 
nacle is  not  in  the  honored  list!  By  dint  of  a  great  effort — judged  at 
least  by  the  exertion  /  had  to  make,  but  not  very  great  after  all  when 
judged  by  results — we  have  after  three  years  paid  nearly  $50,000;  but 
there  are  still  $50,000,  and  I  fear  it  will  be  some  considerable  time  before 
any  more  will  be  done  in  the  direction  of  liquidation.  I  am  very  sorry; 
because,  if  we  had  that  debt  paid,  I  would  see  my  way  at  once,  to  get 
a  permanent  home  for  the  mission  on  36th  St.  and  9th  Avenue  (in 
which  you  and  your  sister  were  so  deeply  interested)  ;  and  its  support 
could  then  come  out  of  the  Tabernacle  pew-rentals.  But  as  it  is,  the 
surplus  must  go  to  pay  off  debt,  and  anything  like  a  mission  building 
of  our  own  seems  to  me  as  yet  in  nubibns.  I  tell  you  all  this  to  increase 
your  gratitude  at  joining  a  church  without  debt,  and  to  deepen  in  your 
heart  the  determination  always  to  oppose  the  contracting  of  a  debt  by 
a  Christian  church.  It  is  sure  to  cripple  something,  and  generally,  if 
it  do  not  pare  down  the  pastor's  salary,  it  does  contract  the  church's 
efforts  for  missions." 

"  The  church's  efforts  for  missions !  "  How  often  those 
words  were  on  his  lips!  Next  to  preaching  the  Word  to  his 
own  people  "  efforts  for  missions "  absorbed  Dr.  Taylor's 
thoughts.  To  build  up  Congregationalism  did  not  concern 
him.  Though  loyal  by  word  and  act  to  the  denomination  of 
which  he  had  become  a  member,  he  never  outgrew  his  sym- 
pathy with  Presbyterianism.  He  fraternized  with  Presby- 
terians naturally,  and,  in  New  York  City,  found  among  them 
his  ministerial  brethren.  He  lectured  at  Yale  and  had  warm 
friends  there,  but  he  loved  Princeton,  and  Dr.  McCosh,  a  fel- 
low Ayrshire  man.  Yet,  though  he  cared  nothing  for  de- 
nominational politics,  he  worked  enthusiastically  with  all  his 
heart  for  all  our  Congregational  missionary  enterprises.  An 
hour  with  genial  Dr.  Clapp,  in  the  Home  Missionary  rooms, 

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was  more  to  him  any  Monday  morning  than  the  formal  gath- 
ering of  the  Ministers'  Club ;  the  American  Board  with  all  its 
interests  was  dear  to  him;  he  was  a  member  of  its  Execu- 
tive Committee ;  he  was  president  of  the  American  Mission- 
ary Association,  and,  long  before  he  became  its  president,  he 
had  taken  a  deep  interest  in  its  work  and  brought  to  it  his 
own  personal  influence.  It  was  in  the  traditions  of  his  church 
to  be  interested  in  the  "  A.  M.  A. ;  "  Dr.  Thomas  Ritter, 
of  the  Tabernacle,  had  been  one  of  its  stanch  upholders 
in  the  days  when  anti-slavery  men  looked  askance  at  the 
American  Board,  and  its  Treasurer,  Mr.  Hubbard,  was  Dr. 
Taylor's  parishioner.  By  the  dignity  of  his  manner,  and  his 
great  force  of  character,  he  gave  distinction  to  its  anniversary 
meetings  over  which  he  presided  from  1882  to  1892.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  American  Congregational  Union — now 
the  Congregational  Church  Building  Society — from  1885  to 
1895.  The  story  of  Dr.  Taylor's  work  in  connection  with  the 
last-named  society  reads  almost  like  a  romance. 

In  February,  1882,  Dr.  L.  H.  Cobb  had  been  called  from 
service  as  Home  Missionary  Superintendent  and  Secretary  to 
the  secretaryship  of  the  Congregational  Union.  Knowing  as 
he  did  the  needs  of  the  home  mission  field,  one  of  the  first 
questions  that  occurred  to  him  in  his  new  work  was:  Why 
does  not  this  society  build  parsonages  as  well  as  houses  of 
worship  for  home  missionary  churches  ?  Indeed,  this  had  been 
one  of  the  avowed  objects  of  the  Congregational  Union  at  its 
first  formation  in  the  old  Tabernacle  nearly  thirty  years  be- 
fore. At  Dr.  Cobb's  suggestion,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board 
in  March,  1882,  a  committee  had  been  appointed  to  devise  a 
plan  for  aiding  parsonage  building.  This  committee  consisted 
of  two  Tabernacle  men,  Treasurer  N.  A.  Calkins  and  Dr.  A. 
H.  Clapp,  with  Secretary  Cobb,  who  came  into  the  church 
some  years  later.  Dr.  Taylor  told  the  rest  of  the  story  in 
his  sermon  preached,  in  the  Tabernacle  Church,  on  "  The  Lit- 
tle Chamber  on  the  Wall :  " 

"  At  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Congregational  Union,  held 
in  May,  1883,  I  happened  as  one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  the  society, 

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to  occupy  the  chair,  in  the  necessary  absence  of  the  president.  On  that 
occasion  the  secretary  [Dr.  Cobb]  read  a  most  admirable  report  which 
contained  the  following  sentences:  'Grants  to  aid  in  parsonage  build- 
ing have  been  voted  to  fourteen  churches.  .  .  .  Six  have  finished 
their  houses  and  the  grants  have  been  paid  to  them  amounting  to  $1,433- 
No  ink  they  can  find  is  strong  enough  to  write  their  gratitude.  .  .  . 
There  will  remain  a  balance  of  $21.03  with  which  to  begin  the  work  of 
the  coming  year.  We  desire  to  call  special  attention  to  the  left-over 
legacy  on  this  branch  of  our  work.  It  is  in  the  form  of  fifty-six  urgent 
applications  for  aid  in  building  greatly  needed  homes  for  ministers.  To 
do  anything  like  justice  to  our  brethren  at  the  front  in  their  great  need 
of  homes,  the  Union  will  absolutely  require  and  ought  to  have  not  less 
than  $25,000  for  this  work  during  the  year  on  which  we  have  already 
entered.  Will  the  churches  take  it  up  ?  .  .  .'  There  were  many  other 
important  matters  referred  to  in  the  report  ...  but  at  its  close  the 
only  thing  I  could  think  of  was  the  appeal  which  I  have  read,  the  echoes 
of  which  have  never  ceased,  since  then,  to  reverberate  in  my  heart." 

Dr.  Cobb  says  that  when  he  mentioned  the  "  left-over 
legacy  "  Dr.  Taylor  began  to  listen  more  intently,  and  at  the 
close  of  this  report  he  rose  and  said  that  he  was  deeply  inter- 
ested in  it,  but  there  was  one  thing  that  warmly  enlisted  his 
sympathy.  It  was  what  the  report  had  said  of  the  need  of 
homes  for  home  missionaries: 

"  It  distresses  me  to  think  of  my  brethren  on  the  Home  Missionary 
field  living  in  board  shanties,  log  huts  and  the  like  while  doing  our 
work." 

Turning  to  Dr.  Cobb  he  said,  "  If  you  wish  it  and  my 
church  will  let  me,  I  will  go  out  with  you  among  the  churches 
and  raise  the  $25,000  of  which  you  have  spoken." 

"  You  may  consider  yourself  invited,"  said  Dr.  Cobb.  Then 
Dr.  Taylor  turned  to  Mr.  William  H.  Smith,  the  senior  deacon 
of  his  church,  who  was  on  the  platform,  and  asked,  "  Can  I 
go,  Deacon?"  "Yes,  in  vacation,"  answered  the  deacon,  jok- 
ingly. "  I  won't  go  in  vacation,  I'll  go  in  school  time,"  re- 
plied the  Doctor ;  "  I  want  my  church  to  share  in  the  work 
of  raising  this  fund." 

It  was  not,  however,  until  April,  1884,  that  a  beginning 
was  made  in  Providence  and  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  when  more 

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than  $1,000  was  raised.  His  next  attempt  was  made  with 
Dr.  Cobb,  later  in  the  year.  He  said  of  this  trip,  in  the  ser- 
mon quoted  above: 

"  On  Tuesday  last,  in  Boston,  after  a  meeting  on  Monday  evening,  we 
got  in  the  course  of  four  hours  the  sum  of  $2,700.  No  one  on  whom 
I  called  refused.  One  gentleman  gave  me  $500.  Some  half  dozen  gave 
me  $250  each,  and  others  smaller  sums.  As  I  was  returning  to  New 
York  on  the  cars  the  same  afternoon  I  met  a  gentleman  belonging  to 
the  Episcopal  Church  .  .  .  and  in  the  course  of  conversation  with 
him  I  happened  to  tell  him  as  a  matter  of  interest  what  I  had  been  doing 
in  Boston.  He  said  little  for  a  time,  but  when  we  went  into  the  dining 
car  for  some  refreshments  he  put  thirty  dollars  in  gold  into  my  hand, 
saying:  '  I  know  all  about  the  hardships  of  these  missionaries  and  would 
like  to  give  you  something  myself.'  Then  after  we  got  through  dinner, 
he  said,  '  I  find  I  have  more  money  in  my  pocket  than  I  thought  I  had. 
I  would  like  to  make  that  thirty  into  fifty  dollars,'  which  he  did.  Dr. 
Cobb  was  in  another  car,  and  I  hastened  to  tell  him  of  the  unexpected 
gift  [happy  as  a  boy,  Dr.  Cobb  says].  As  I  was  speaking  to  him,  a 
gentleman  in  the  seat  before  that  in  which  he  was  sitting,  overhearing 
what  I  was  telling  him,  turned,  and  said :  '  I  read  about  that,  this  morn- 
ing, in  the  Boston  paper,  and  I  want  to  give  you  something  too.'  So 
he  handed  me  five  dollars.  These  unlooked-for  incidents  made  me  feel 
that  God  is,  indeed,  with  me  in  this  enterprise." 

The  Tabernacle  Church,  too,  felt  that  God  was  with  him 
and  did  not  withhold  their  gifts.  Besides  supplying  the  pul- 
pit during  the  three  Sabbaths  of  their  pastor's  absence  they 
contributed  $5,000  to  the  fund,  and  Dr.  Taylor,  after  a  Western 
trip  with  the  secretary,  after  making  appeals  in  several  Brook- 
lyn churches,  writing  numerous  letters  early  in  1885,  and  call- 
ing in  person  on  many  individuals,  had  the  great  joy  of  see- 
ing the  fund,  during  that  year,  amount  to  $27,000.  The  April 
issue  of  the  Church  Building  Quarterly,  1895,  was  a  "  Par- 
sonage Number,"  in  commemoration  of  Dr.  Taylor  and  his 
noble  work  for  home  missionaries.  In  it,  among  many  pictures 
of  parsonages  built  by  help  of  this  fund,  is  a  view  of  the  "  Tay- 
lor Parsonage,"  named  in  his  honor,  in  Great  Bend,  Kansas. 
The  missionaries'  letters  written  from  their  new  parsonages 
overflow  with  gratitude.  One  of  them  wisely  says :  "  These 
home  missionary  parsonages  are  Dr.  Taylor's  monuments." 

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The  Student  Volunteer  Movement  owes  its  existence,  indi- 
rectly, to  Dr.  Taylor.  Mr.  L.  D.  Wishard,  who  holds  Dr. 
Taylor  as  "  one  of  the  greatest  preachers  and  foreign  mission- 
ary pastors  this  country  ever  had,"  writes  as  follows : 

"  In  January,  1876,  Dr.  Taylor  was  suddenly  called  to  Princeton  to 
preach  to  the  students  on  the  Day  of  Prayer  for  Colleges.  He  delivered 
on  that  occasion  one  of  the  greatest  sermons  I  ever  heard  from  him 
on  the  text  '  Almost  thou  persuadest  me  to  be  a  Christian.'  We  who 
were  identified  with  that  greatest  revival  in  Princeton's  history  have 
always  felt  that  Dr.  Taylor  had  an  important  part  through  that  sermon 
in  bringing  about  that  great  spiritual  uprising.  On  the  evening  of  that 
day,  after  hearing  a  second  sermon  from  him  in  the  village  church,  a 
large  number  of  students  made  a  public  announcement  of  their  accept- 
ance of  Christ.  Their  action  was  not  exclusively  the  result  of  Dr.  Tay- 
lor's sermon.  Nearly  a  hundred  Christian  men  had  been  spending  the 
entire  day  in  personal  appeals  to  the  students  to  become  Christians. 
The  sermon,  however,  did  its  part,  and  a  very  important  part  it  was. 

"  The  uplift  which  the  revival  gave  to  the  spiritual  life  of  the  insti- 
tution paved  the  way  in  a  large  measure  for  the  movement  which 
Princeton  students  made  within  a  year  to  enlist  the  students  of  all  of 
our  leading  colleges  and  universities  in  an  intercollegiate  Christian 
union.  This  union  was  known  as  the  Intercollegiate  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.  Two  years  after  the  Intercollegiate  Association 
was  formed  a  foreign  missionary  department  was  created  in  the  Asso- 
ciation. This  foreign  missionary  department  is  now  known  as  the 
Student  Volunteer  Movement  for  Foreign  Missions." 

Mr.  Wishard  was  connected  with  the  movement  as  its 
originator  and  organizing  secretary  from  1877  until  1888.  In 
January,  1880,  Mr.  Wishard  submitted  a  statement  concern- 
ing the  aim  and  methods  of  the  movement  to  Dr.  Taylor,  who 
gave  his  hearty  endorsement  of  it.  At  that  time  Mr.  Wishard 
was  entertaining  a  call  to  an  important  position  on  the  for- 
eign mission  field,  but  his  departure  would  leave  the  Inter- 
collegiate Movement  without  a  leader.  Again  he  sought  Dr. 
Taylor's  counsel,  who  gave  him,  says  Mr.  Wishard,  advice  in 
substance  as  follows: 

"  You  fully  realize  how  natural  it  would  be  for  me  with  my  deep 
interest  in  foreign  missions  to  advise  you  to  go  to  the  foreign  mission 

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field.  I  think  I  see,  however,  a  service  before  you  in  this  country  as 
leader  of  the  missionary  movement  among  students  which  is  far  more 
significant  than  any  service  you  can  render  single  handed  upon  the 
mission  field.  You  have  evidently  been  providentially  called  to  the 
direction  of  this  movement  at  home,  and  my  judgment  is  that  you 
should  not  turn  aside  from  such  an  opening  unless  God  compels  you 
to  do  so." 

He  said  further: 

"  I  have  been  guided  about  a  number  of  matters  in  my  life  by  a 
principle  which  I  would  commend  to  you.  I  have  never  felt  at  liberty 
to  leave  an  existing  work  until  I  not  only  saw  an  open  door  before  me 
but  also  a  closed  door  behind  me.  I  have  recently  had  an  urgent  call 
to  an  important  and  attractive  field  in  a  neighboring  city.  The  Taber- 
nacle, however,  has  very  strong  claims  on  me.  They  have  assumed 
obligations  in  connection  with  my  pastorate  which  I  cannot  ignore. 
The  door  before  me  is  undoubtedly  open,  but  the  door  behind  me  is 
not  closed." 

As  a  result  of  this  counsel  Mr.  Wishard  remained  to  carry 
on  the  Volunteer  Movement.  Until  now  more  than  1,600 
of  its  men  have  gone  to  foreign  mission  fields  from  this 
country,  while  five  hundred  more  have  gone  from  British 
universities. 

From  October,  1876,  to  June,  1880,  Dr.  Taylor  was  editor- 
in-chief  of  The  Christian  at  Work — now  Christian  Work. 
Major  Marshall  H.  Bright,  editor  of  the  Christian  Work, 
writes  of  Dr.  Taylor's  connection  with  that  journal  as  fol- 
lows: 

"  It  was  in  October,  1876,  that  the  precipitate  retirement  of  the  then 
editor  of  the  Christian  Work,  which  occurred  at  the  very  instant  when 
the  paper  was  going  to  press,  required  an  immediate  selection  of  an 
editor-in-chief  who  should  be  a  representative  man  and  preferably  a 
preacher  and  a  strong  one.  It  was  also  very  desirable  that  the  an- 
nouncement of  his  coming  should  be  made  without  the  delay  of  an 
issue.  My  suggestion  at  the  time  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Taylor  as  the  future 
editor  was  no  sooner  made  than  accepted,  and  I  immediately  called 
upon  the  doctor  at  his  residence.  The  proposition  was  laid  before  him 
and  it  is  a  tribute  to  his  decision  of  character  that  it  only  required  the 

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pause  of  a  few  minutes,  when  he  replied,  '  Yes — I  will  take  the  editor- 
ship you  offer;  but  each  party  must  be  at  liberty  to  cancel  the  engage- 
ment at  any  time.'  Dr.  Taylor,  as  I  have  reason  to  believe,  without  the 
knowledge  of  any  one  outside  of  his  immediate  family,  devoted  his  entire 
salary  as  editor  to  beneficence,  appropriating  no  part  to  himself. 

"  Dr.  Taylor's  editorial  work  has  long  been  recognized  and  will  not 
be  forgotten.  But  I  may  say  this  of  it — it  was  emphatically  up  to  date. 
No  part  of  an  old  sermon,  I  believe,  was  ever  made  available  for  an 
editorial,  although  it  might  admirably  have  served  the  purpose.  But 
Dr.  Taylor  would  have  none  of  it.  He  was  a  careful  and  close  reader 
of  the  best  current  literature  in  philosophy  and  theology,  and  especially 
of  the  foreign  reviews ;  and  the  fruits  of  his  reading  appeared  in  the 
leading  editorial  article,  which  generally  comprised  from  eight  hundred 
to  a  thousand  words.  Dr.  Taylor  did  not  believe  in  very  short  editorials, 
and  displayed  the  same  earnestness,  intensity  and  clearness  of  thought, 
and  accuracy  of  statement  in  journalistic  work  that  characterized  his 
sermons.  .  .  .  Speaking  of  his  editorial  writing  he  once  said  to  me, 
'  It  seems  easy;  not  only  must  but  one  subject  be  treated,  but  generally 
but  one  phase  of  a  subject,  and  yet  sometimes  it  comes  more  difficult 
for  me  to  write  an  editorial  than  a  sermon.' 

"  Dr.  Taylor  was  a  very  conservative  man  in  his  views  on  the  ques- 
tion of  Evolution.  He  then  regarded  the  doctrine  as  amenable  to  the 
Scotch  verdict  '  not  proven ' ;  and  while  he  would  not  distinctly  enter 
the  lists  against  it,  he  was  fond  of  quoting  some  jest  or  witticism  put 
forth  by  an  opponent  of  the  doctrine.  Conservative  in  the  field  of 
science  his  writings  showed  him  a  moderate  conservative  in  the  depart- 
ment of  theology.  Here  perhaps  he  was  more  liberal  in  thought  than 
in  his  expression  of  it. 

"  Dr.  Taylor  was  not  only  of  Scottish  birth  but  a  devoted  Scot  in 
feeling.  He  quite  resented  being  spoken  of  as  '  an  Englishman.'  Once 
when  a  religious  paper  alluded  to  him  as  '  Dr.  Taylor,  late  of  Liverpool,' 
he  exclaimed  '  Why  do  they  do  that?  I  am  a  Scotchman  and  not  an 
Englishman.  But  they  cannot  expatriate  me  if  they  try.'  For  a  long 
time,  it  may  be  added,  Dr.  Taylor  refused  to  become  naturalized,  and 
this  not  so  much  because  of  his  fondness  for  his  native  land,  but  chiefly 
because  of  the  dominance  of  misrule  in  this  city  and  elsewhere. 

"  Dr.  Taylor's  sense  of  justice  was  not  the  least  attractive  element 
of  his  character.  On  one  occasion  an  editorial  appeared  in  Christian 
Work  reflecting,  and  as  it  afterward  appeared  unjustly,  upon  the  man- 
agement of  an  important  department  of  the  work  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  Expostulations  and  protests  came  in  by  nearly  every  mail. 
When  I  next  saw  him  Dr.  Taylor  showed  me  some  of  the  letters  and 
inquired  who  the  writer  of  the  article  was.  Upon  being  informed,  he 
said  he  would  write  him,  which  he  did,  asking  for  his  authority.     The 

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reply  giving  the  authority  was  regarded  by  him,  and  I  believe  rightly, 
as  inadequate.  Thereupon  he  wrote  a  short  editorial  article  for  the 
next  issue  recalling  '  the  censure  so  mistakenly  and  unjustly  visited 
upon  the  Presbyterian  Church  by  the  writer  of  the  editorial  in  ques- 
tion.' I  may  add  that  as  the  writer  was  a  friend  of  both  Dr.  Taylor 
and  myself,  I  asked  him  if  he  would  not  somewhat  modify  the  expres- 
sion of  his  condemnation,  but  this  he  refused  to  do.  He  said  an  injustice 
had  been  perpetrated  so  distinctly  that  it  must  as  distinctly  be  recalled. 
"  Only  once  was  there  the  semblance  of  attrition  between  the  doctor 
and  myself.  On  this  occasion  there  was  pretty  sharp  discussion  over 
the  policy  of  the  paper  upon  some  matter — I  forget  now  just  what  it 
was.  I  had  expressed  myself  quite  forcibly — more  so  probably  than  I 
had  just  cause  for  doing — when  Dr.  Taylor  proceeded  to  answer  me 
in  his  most  emphatic  manner :  '  Let  me  tell  you — let  me  tell  you  ' — and 
then  coming  to  an  abrupt  pause  and  evidently  with  effort  putting  him- 
self under  control,  his  whole  tone  and  bearing  changing,  he  said,  plac- 
ing his  hand  on  my  shoulder,  '  If  we  discuss  any  further  one  or  both 
of  us  will  say  something  we  shall  regret.  Come  down  and  lunch  with 
me.'  That  settled  it :  it  was  the  end  of  all  controversy :  it  was  a  fine 
example  of  self-control  and  served — as  how  could  it  fail? — to  increase 
my  admiration  for  the  man." 


Major  Bright  gives  other  interesting  incidents  bearing  uport 
Dr.  Taylor's  connection  with  the  Christian  Work  and  sums 
up  his  impression  of  him  as  one  always  courteous,  just,  dis- 
criminating, who  by  the  charm  of  his  personal  intercourse, 
the  freedom  with  which  at  times  he  exhibited  his  inner  feel- 
ing, and  by  his  consideration  for  others,  showed  in  his  lov- 
able and  strong  nature  "  the  blending  of  those  rare  qualities 
which  made  him  the  great  preacher,  the  able  editor,  the  firm 
friend,  and  the  Christian  gentleman  that  he  was." 

At  different  times  Dr.  Taylor  filled  various  other  positions 
of  honor  and  responsibility  in  New  York  City.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Gospel  Mission  to  the  Tombs ;  chaplain  to  the  St. 
Andrew's  Society;  member  of  the  Council  of  the  University 
of  the  City  of  New  York;  manager  of  the  Presbyterian  Hos- 
pital; manager  of  the  American  Tract  Society;  manager  of 
the  American  Bible  Society;  trustee  of  Mount  Holyoke  Semi- 
nary (now  college)  ;  director  of  the  New  York  City  Mission 
and  Tract  Society,  and  member  of  the  Committee  of  the  Na- 

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tional  Council  for  Ministerial  Relief.  In  addition  to  what 
came  upon  him  through  his  connection  with  these  many 
benevolences  and  because  of  his  position  as  bishop  of  the 
one  Metropolitan  church  of  its  order  in  the  United  States,  Dr. 
Taylor  was  in  frequent,  almost  incessant  demand  for  public 
services,  for  installation  and  dedication  sermons,  for  memorial 
addresses,  and  for  lectures.  It  has  been  said  that  the  high 
water  mark  of  his  attainments  as  a  public  speaker  was  reached 
at  three  times,  and  in  three  different  styles  of  oratory:  in  his 
memorized  sermon  on  the  death  of  the  Prince  Consort;  in  his 
extempore  address  at  the  Robert  Raikes  centenary  in  Exeter 
Hall,  London,  in  1880,  and  in  the  great  Luther  celebration  in 
New  York,  when  his  address  was  read.  Some  of  that  vast 
audience,  who  looked  from  the  speaker  to  the  bust  of  Luther 
that  was  placed  near  him,  found  it  so  remarkably  like  Dr. 
Taylor  that  they  questioned  whether  it  were  intended  to  rep- 
resent the  preacher  or  the  reformer.  In  1876  and  1887  he 
delivered  the  Lyman  Beecher  course  of  lectures  at  Yale,  after- 
ward published  in  book  form  as  "  The  Ministry  of  the  Word  " 
(1876);  and  "The  Scottish  Pulpit  from  the  Reformation  to 
the  Present  Day"  (1887).  "The  Ministry  of  the  Word,'-' 
says  the  Kilmarnock  Standard,  in  its  review  of  Dr.  Taylor's 
life,  was  presented  by  a  liberal  member  of  the  denomination 
(United  Presbyterian)  to  all  the  students  attending  Divinity 
Hall  at  the  time  of  publication  and  to  the  young  ministers 
of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church.  He  also  delivered  in 
Princeton,  in  1880,  lectures  on  "  The  Gospel  Miracles  in  their 
Relation  to  Christ,"  published  the  same  year;  and  from  that 
university  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.,  three  years  later. 
Some  of  these  courses  of  lectures  Dr.  Taylor  also  gave  at 
Union  and  at  Oberlin. 

Much  has  been  said  in  these  pages  of  Dr.  Taylor  as  a 
preacher.  It  was  from  the  pulpit  that  he  spoke  to  the  world  at 
large,  but  to  the  smaller  circle  of  his  acquaintances  and  friends 
it.  was  not  Dr.  Taylor  the  preacher,  but  Dr.  Taylor  the  man, 
whom  they  loved  and  revered.  He  was  a  man  greatly  beloved. 
The  several  clerks  of  the  church  committee  exhausted  all  their 

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power  of  language  in  attempting  to  express  what  he  was  to  the 
flock  he  tended : 

"  The  world  knows  something  of  the  eloquence  with  which  Dr.  Tay- 
lor, in  his  pulpit  ministrations,  enforces  and  illustrates  the  precepts 
of  religion;  .  .  .  but  to  us,  the  people  with  whom  he  has  lived  and 
to  whose  spiritual  needs  he  has  ministered,  the  greatness  for  which  the 
world  admires  him  is  almost  lost  sight  of  in  our  regard  for  him  as  a 
pastor  and  our  love  for  him  as  a  friend.  He  has  shared  our  joys,  he 
has  been  with  us  in  our  times  of  sorrow  and  bereavement,  and  day  by 
day  he  has  moved  to  and  fro  among  us  like  the  weaver's  shuttle,  carry- 
ing with  him  the  golden  cord  of  Christian  sympathy  that  has  woven  us 
together  in  one  family  of  Christian  believers."  * 

The  subscription  taken  up  for  a  church  building  for  the 
Bethany  Mission,  on  Dr.  Taylor's  tenth  anniversary,  was  also 
"  a  thank  offering  for  that  firmly  rooted  and  uninterrupted 
mutual  confidence  and  esteem  which  has  prevailed  during 
these  ten  years  between  pastor  and  people." f  On  the  follow- 
ing evening  a  reception  was  given  to  the  pastor,  and  the 
society  and  neighboring  clergymen  gathered  to  celebrate  the 
occasion  still  further.  The  clearing  of  the  debt  on  the  church 
building  was  accomplished  on  Sunday,  March  13,  1887,  the 
fifteenth  anniversary,  "  as  a  loving  testimonial  of  the  estima- 
tion in  which  he  is  held  in  the  hearts  and  homes  of  his  people." 
At  the  sixtieth  anniversary  of  the  church,  Dr.  William  H. 
Thomson,  when  talking  of  "  the  old  friends,"  said  that  Dr. 
Taylor  was  a  friend  of  whom  he  could  not  trust  himself  to 
speak  at  all  adequately: 

"  Dr.  Taylor  never  could  be  a  half-way  friend.  It  was  not  in  him 
to  hide  anything.  He  could  not  be  artificial  if  he  tried.  His  whole 
soul  went  out  to  any  one  whom  he  liked  with  a  genial  abandon  which 
made  him  one  of  the  most  lovable  men  that  I  have  ever  met.  There 
was  nothing  he  enjoyed  so  much  as  a  good  joke,  and  as  there  is  no 
such  personal  revealer  and  sometimes  betrayer  as  a  laugh,  so  the  genuine, 
genial  soul  of  that  man  often  comes  back  to  me  as  the  sound  of  his 
voice  still  echoes  in  the  memory  of  some  pleasantry  of  his." 

*  Annual  Report  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  for  1876. 
f  Year  Book,  1882. 

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An  incident  told  by  Dr.  Ward  of  the  Independent  throws  a 
flash  of  light  on  Dr.  Taylor's  sweetness  and  simplicity  of  spirit. 
At  an  association  meeting  Dr.  Ward  defended  a  certain  posi- 
tion. This  Dr.  Taylor  opposed,  making  a  hasty  and  some- 
what heated  rejoinder.  Dr.  Ward  said  nothing  further.  He 
respected  Dr.  Taylor  too  much  to  wish  to  antagonize  him. 
Almost  immediately  after  this  little  difference  Dr.  Taylor  was 
called  upon  to  lead  in  prayer.  As  soon  as  he  ceased  praying 
Dr.  Taylor  started  for  Dr.  Ward  who  was  leaving  the  room. 
Hastening  after  him  he  called  out,  heedless  of  bystanders, 
"  Dr.  Ward,  I  want  you  to  forgive  me."  Embarrassed  by  Dr. 
Taylor's  sweet  humility,  Dr.  Ward  tried  to  silence  him,  but 
he  seized  his  hand  and  repeated  yet  more  emphatically :  "  Say 
you  forgive  me ! "  Such  magnanimity  would  have  disarmed 
even  a  foe. 

In  1888  Dr.  Taylor  left  New  York  for  his  annual  trip 
abroad,  somewhat  earlier  than  usual,  that  he  might  attend  the 
Ecumenical  Conference  of  Foreign  Missions,  in  London,  to 
which  he  was  accredited  a  delegate-at-large.  After  returning, 
for  one  Sunday  he  was  prevented  by  illness  from  preaching 
to  his  people;  the  first  time  in  more  than  thirty  years  that 
he  had  been  absent  from  his  pulpit  on  account  of  ill-health. 

The  following  year  the  American  Board  held,  in  October, 
its  annual  meeting,  a  notable  one,  in  the  Tabernacle. 

Fifty  years  after  the  founding  of  the  church,  in  1890,  its 
clerk  reported  1,220  members,  the  largest  number  the  church 
had  ever  enrolled. 

After  his  return  from  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American 
Missionary  Association,  in  1891,  Dr.  Taylor  was  laid  aside 
from  ministerial  duty  for  six  weeks.  During  this  time  he  was 
unable  to  study;  but  he  soon  resumed  work,  and  March  13th, 
of  the  following  year,  he  preached  the  twentieth  anniversary 
sermon  from  which  quotations  have  already  been  made.  In 
this  address  he  called  by  name  Henry  C.  Hall,  William  Allen, 
Charles  Abernethy,  Thomas  Berry,  William  G.  Lambert, 
Thomas  Ritter,  Nathaniel  Fisher,  the  brothers  Ranney,  and 
Thomas  W.  Whittemore,  "  whose  friendly  co-operation  light- 

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ened  the  burdens  and  sweetened  the  cares  of  my  pastorate." 
He  stated  that  during  his  pastorate  six  hundred  had  been  ad- 
mitted to  the  church  on  confession,  nine  hundred  and  eighty- 
two  by  letter,  nearly  sixteen  hundred  in  all.  He  called  their 
attention  to  the  confession  of  faith,  unaltered,  up  to  the  pres- 
ent, from  Dr.  Thompson's  day.  The  original  "  statement  " 
as  to  the  objects  of  a  Christian  church  had  entirely  omit- 
ted what  Dr.  Taylor  considered,  perhaps,  the  most  impor- 
tant object  of  the  church — "  the  advancement  of  the  Re- 
deemer's Kingdom."  He  showed  that  the  contributions  of 
the  church  for  missionary  enterprises  at  home  and  abroad  had 
advanced  from  $11,558,  in  1872,  to  $41,881,  in  1891 ;  that  is, 
that  the  church's  payment  for  "  the  advancement  of  the  Re- 
deemer's Kingdom,"  outside  its  own  bounds,  had  nearly  quad- 
rupled in  twenty  years.  He  summed  up,  in  round  numbers, 
that  the  church  had  raised  three-quarters  of  a  million  for  the 
payment  of  debt,  and  the  support  of  their  own  home  work 
in  twenty  years;  and  half  a  million  for  missionary  purposes. 
The  tide  of  liberality  had  risen  gradually  but  steadily,  and  the 
pastor's  heart  glowed  with  gratitude. 

About  two  weeks  later,  March  30th,  Dr.  Taylor  was  stricken 
with  paralysis.  At  first  he  gained  so  notably  that  he  hoped 
to  be  able  to  resume  his  work,  but  as  the  six  months'  leave 
of  absence  that  had  been  given  him  drew  to  a  close  he  real- 
ized how  long  it  must  be  under  the  most  favorable  circum- 
stances before  he  could  again  preach,  and  he  decided  to  lay 
down  his  charge.  His  resignation  was  sent  October  27,  1892,* 
and  was  presented  at  a  special  meeting  of  the  church  Novem- 
ber 2d.  There  was  no  other  course  open  for  the  church  but 
to  accept  it.f  They  voted,  however,  to  continue  his  salary  un- 
til May  1,  1893,  and  to  appoint  him  pastor  emeritus  for  life, 
with  no  responsibility  or  function  other  than  that  which  his 
membership  in  the  church  involved,  with  an  annual  stipend 
of  $5,000.  These  resolutions,  with  a  minute  expressing  the 
love,  gratitude,  and  sympathy  of  his  people,  were  forwarded 
to  him  immediately.    Dr.  Taylor's  touching  letter  in  response 

*  Appendix  K.  \  Appendix  L. 

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to  this  action  was  read  at  the  service  on  Sunday,  Christmas 
morning,  and  cannot  be  omitted  from  this  chapter: 

"  Lakewood,  N.  J.,  22d  December,  1892. 
"  William  Ives  Washburn,  Esq., 

"  My  dear  Sir : — I  ought,  long  ago,  to  have  acknowledged  the  receipt 
of  the  beautifully  illuminated  copy  of  the  Resolutions  adopted  by  the 
Church  in  the  matter  of  my  letter  of  resignation,  but  whenever  I  have 
tried  to  concentrate  my  thoughts  on  that  subject,  the  tumult  of  emotion 
within  me  has  become  so  great  as  to  unfit  me  for  any  kind  of  mental 
exertion.  Nor  will  you  be  surprised  at  this  when  you  remember  that 
I  had  given  up  what  I  may  call  the  ruling  passion  of  my  life,  and  after 
thirty-nine  years  of  active  service  in  the  pulpit  had  at  the  bidding  of 
my  Master  sunk  into  silence.  It  needed  some  time  for  me  to  find  out 
that  He  had  not  dismissed  me  in  disgrace,  but  that  as  a  special  favor 
he  had  given  me  a  holiday  at  the  week-end  preparatory  to  my  entering 
upon  the  fuller  rest  of  the  eternal  Sabbath.  Accordingly  I  delayed 
communicating  with  you  until  in  the  spiritual  calmness  of  this  restored 
faith  I  could  write  with  an  unruffled  heart. 

"  Tell  the  members  of  the  Church  that  I  thank  them  unfeignedly  for 
the  affection  and  appreciation  so  eloquently  and  so  touchingly  expressed 
in  their  resolutions.  It  is  good  to  receive  such  kind  words  at  any  time, 
but  when  one  has  been  laid  aside  from  active  work  they  are  to  him  as 
'  Cold  water  to  a  thirsty  soul,'  nay,  almost  as  the  prelude  and  prophecy 
of  the  '  Well  done ! '  of  the  Lord  Himself.  As  such  I  value  them  be- 
yond all  price;  but  where  to  them  is  added  the  great  honor  of  being 
continued  in  the  relation  of  Pastor  Emeritus  to  those  of  whom  I  was 
so  long  the  shepherd ;  and  the  generous  and  thoughtful  provision  which 
the  Society  has  made  for  my  temporal  comfort,  my  admiration  of  my 
people  is  swallowed  up  in  gratitude  for  their  kindness.  I  accept  their 
generosity  as  heartily  as  they  have  given  it,  and  pray  that '  a  full  reward 
may  be  given  them  of  the  Lord  God  of  Israel,  under  whose  wings  they 
have  come  to  trust.' 

"  Wishing  for  them  that  God  of  his  grace  may  soon  send  them  a 
pastor  according  to  his  own  heart,  and  with  all  kindest  regards  for 

yourself,  I  remain, 

"  Yours  faithfully, 

"  Wm.  M.  Taylor." 

Just  at  the  time  Dr.  Taylor  was  stricken,  an  effort  was 
making  to  draw  him  back  to  Scotland,  to  succeed  Dr.  John 
Cairns,  as  principal  of  the  Divinity  Hall,  in  Edinburgh,  in 
which  he  had  graduated  forty  years  before.  The  offer  was  a 
tempting  one,  which,  had  he  been  well,  though  at  a  good  deal 

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The  Third   Pastor,   William   Mackergo  Taylor 

of  pecuniary  sacrifice,  it  would  have  been  hard  to  refuse.    He 
wrote  to  Professor  Calderwood: 

"  But  just  at  the  moment  when  your  letter  came  I  was,  in  the  good 
Providence  of  God,  in  circumstances  which  took  the  whole  matter  out 
of  my  hands." 

Still,  "  by  the  good  Providence  of  God  "  he  rallied  suffi- 
ciently to  do  some  more  work  during  the  three  years  he  re- 
mained with  his  household  and  friends.  There  were  frequent 
and  trying  relapses,  but  he  wrote,  or  dictated,  many  letters, 
treasured  by  his  friends.  He  put  through  the  press  "  The  Boy 
Jesus  and  other  Sermons,"  followed  by  "  An  Address  to 
Young  Men."  This  labor  was  a  great  comfort  to  him,  but 
gradually  he  was  forced  to  relinquish  all  service  save  that 
most  difficult  of  all,  to  "  stand  and  wait."  When  he  at  last 
realized  that  this  was  the  will  of  God  concerning  him  the 
sweetness  of  his  resignation  was  a  lesson  in  Christianity  to  all 
who  visited  him.     Said  Dr.  Storrs : 

"  Though  I  thought  I  knew  him  to  the  centre  I  did  not  understand 
that  power  of  sovereign,  conquering,  God-given  patience  which  he  ex- 
hibited in  the  closing  years  of  his  life.  ...  I  wonder  how  many  of 
us  can  say :  '  That  was  a  strain  which  I  could  bear !  '  I  say  for  myself 
frankly :    '  I  could  not  then  and  there  have  borne  it.'  " 

And  Dr.  William  H.  Thomson  pays  him  this  loving  tribute : 

"  It  was  my  sad  duty  to  be  with  him  through  many  months  of  the 
heaviest  trial  of  spirit  which  could  have  been  sent  to  one  of  his  char- 
acter and  temperament.  To  a  man  of  his  aspirations,  as  well  as  quali- 
fications, there  could  be  no  greater  calamity  or  keener  disappointment 
than  to  be  stricken  down  in  the  midst  of  his  days  of  power  and  of  action 
and  left  for  many  a  weary  month  to  realize  the  nature  of  the  blow 
more  and  more.  Then  it  was  that  the  Lord  appeared  behind  him 
though  he  knew  it  not.  Unconsciously  Dr.  Taylor  showed  the  very 
picture  of  Christ  himself  in  his  sweet  trusting  resignation  to  God's 
will;  and  to  some,  at  least,  proved  the  reality  of  the  Christian  life  as 
a  gift  from  above  more  than  did  his  greatest  sermons." 

And  he  kept  his  power  of  loving  and  awakening  love  unto 
the  end — that  power  which  his  successor,  Dr.  Stimson,  in  his 

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beautiful  memorial  sermon,  calls  "  the  best  gift  that  God  has 
sent  us."  In  almost  his  last  return  of  consciousness  he  smiled 
and  said,  "  Those  dear  people ;  how  good  they  have  been  to 
me !  "    "  Then,"  said  the  preacher : 

"  he  stroked  my  face  with  his  hand  as  though  he  were  stroking  yours 
each  in  turn.  '  How  good  they  have  been  to  me !  '  His  thoughts  were 
taking  in  the  whole  congregation — the  strong  men,  and  the  little  chil- 
dren whose  faces  he  loved  and  whose  names  he  had  given  in  baptism, 
all  were  present  to  his  mind  and  held  their  place  in  the  wealth  of  that 
love  which  remained  undisturbed  to  the  last." 

He  passed  away  peacefully  at  midnight,  February  8,  1895. 


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CHAPTER  VIII. 
THE    FOURTH    AND    FIFTH    PASTORATES. 

On  the  acceptance  of  Dr.  Taylor's  resignation  a  special  com- 
mittee was  appointed  by  the  church  and  society,  to  nominate 
his  successor.  This  committee  consisted  of  Messrs.  Cornelius 
N.  Bliss,  Caleb  B.  Knevals,  Henry  C.  Houghton,  J.  Howard 
Sweetser,  Bradford  K.  Wiley,  Irving  R.  Fisher,  and  William 
Ives  Washburn.  The  work  of  the  church  went  on  quietly  but 
uninterruptedly.  A  student  in  the  senior  class  of  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Mr.  J.  Winthrop  Platner,  was  engaged  to 
aid  the  church  committee  in  pastoral  work,  and  his  assistance 
was  valuable  in  the  weekly  prayer  and  conference  meeting, 
the  Sunday-school,  and  the  Young  Men's  Association.  The 
pulpit  was  supplied  by  the  Rev.  Marvin  R.  Vincent,  D.D., 
and  other  well-known  clergymen. 

On  January  I,  1893,  the  committee  presented,  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  church,  the  name  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Albert 
Stimson,  D.D.,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  the  church  and  society 
thereupon  extended  to  him  a  unanimous  call  to  the  pastorate. 
Dr.  Stimson  had  interviews  with  the  committee  in  St.  Louis, 
and  before  deciding  to  accept  the  call  he  came  to  New  York 
and  occupied  the  pulpit  on  two  Sabbaths. 

Dr.  Stimson  was  born  September  28,  1842.  His  early  home 
was  in  New  York  City,  and  before  going  to  college  he  was 
for  some  years  in  business  with  Morton,  Grinnell  &  Co.,  of 
New  York.  He  entered  Yale  University  as  Sophomore,  grad- 
uating in  1865.  He  studied  for  one  year  in  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  1866-67,  and  graduated  from  the  Andover 
Theological  Seminary  in  1869  after  a  year  and  a  half  of 
study  abroad.    He  was  called,  the  same  year,  to  the  Plymouth 

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Church  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  served  as  acting  pas- 
tor for  a  year.  In  1870  he  was  ordained  as  pastor,  and  re- 
mained in  charge  of  that  church  until  1880.  He  married, 
April  19,  1877,  Alice,  daughter  of  President  Samuel  C.  Bart- 
lett,  D.D.,  of  Dartmouth  College.  He  has  received  from  Yale 
the  degrees  of  Master  of  Arts  and  Doctor  of  Divinity;  the 
latter  degree  also  from  Ripon  College. 

During  the  eleven  years  of  his  service  with  Plymouth 
Church,  Dr.  Stimson  became  an  efficient  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Home  Missions,  an  active  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Carleton  College,  and  he  was  energetic  in  pro- 
moting every  form  of  benevolence  and  church  work  in  the 
city,  and  prominent,  as  a  citizen,  in  supporting  whatever  the 
interests  of  the  community  or  the  State  demanded.  All  sorts 
of  affairs,  from  the  color  of  a  new  bridge  to  the  founding  of 
a  library,  were  referred  to  him.  At  one  time,  when  the  city 
was  under  the  shadow  of  unrestrained  immorality,  Dr.  Stim- 
son proposed  a  general  meeting  to  arouse  the  public  conscience. 
He  was  met  with  the  assertion,  "  You  cannot  get  a  baker's 
dozen  to  attend  such  a  meeting." 

"  We  will  not  only  fill  the  Academy  of  Music,"  was  his  re- 
ply, "  but  we  will  have  an  overflow  meeting."  Dr.  Stimson 
knew  no  discouragement.  He  enlisted  the  superintendent  of 
public  schools,  the  leading  Catholic  priest,  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  rector,  engaged  the  Academy  of  Music,  and,  after 
due  preparation,  announced  the  meeting.  Not  only  was  the 
great  building  filled  and  the  overflow  meeting  held,  but  another 
large  meeting  followed,  and  good  citizenship  took  a  long  step 
forward.     His  indomitable  energy  commanded  success. 

From  his  connection  with  the  State  Board  of  Home  Mis- 
sions, Dr.  Stimson  was  in  close  touch  with  the  weaker  Con- 
gregational churches  of  the  Northwest.  He  stimulated  and 
encouraged  their  pastors  to  new  efforts  in  strengthening  and 
establishing  their  struggling  enterprises.  Thus  he  began  in 
Plymouth  Church  the  work  of  building  around  him  new  Con- 
gregational churches,  a  work  which  he  has  continued  to  the 
present. 

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Pastor  1893  to  1896 


The  Fourth  and  Fifth  Pastorates 

In  1880  Dr.  Stimson  became  pastor  of  the  Union  Church 
in  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  labored  for  six  years.  Here 
he  introduced  new  and  interesting  methods,  and  soon,  instead 
of  a  scattered  audience  on  Sunday  evenings,  the  house  was 
filled,  and  ten  new  Congregational  churches  were  organized  or 
started  through  the  city  missionary  society  which  he  was  in- 
strumental in  forming.  The  following  year  he  was  made  re- 
cording secretary  of  the  American  Board,  which  position  he 
has  occupied  to  the  present  time. 

In  1886  Dr.  Stimson  returned  to  the  West,  the  Pilgrim 
Church  of  St.  Louis  having  invited  him  to  its  pastorate.  "  You 
are  not  going  to  St.  Louis  but  to  the  Southwest,"  was  a 
brother  minister's  answer  when  asked  for  advice  as  to  this 
call.  Nor  was  he  mistaken.  There  Dr.  Stimson  took  up  work 
for  Drury  College,  he  started  the  city  missionary  society, 
and  through  his  encouragement  and  the  pecuniary  aid  his 
church  could  give,  many  young  churches  were  enabled  to  es- 
tablish themselves  firmly.  There  lacks  but  one — or  possibly 
two  may  be  wanting — to  make  the  number  of  churches  he  has 
thus  built  and  founded  a  full  quarter  of  a  hundred. 

Dr.  Stimson  was  released  by  council  from  his  pastorate  in 
St.  Louis,  March  20,  1893,  and  on  that  day  he  accepted  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle's  invitation.  He  took  up  the  work  of 
the  church  the  very  day  he  reached  New  York,  by  conducting 
the  regular  weekly  prayer-meeting  on  the  evening  of  April  5, 
1893.    His  pulpit  ministrations  began  the  following  Sunday. 

All  the  Congregational  churches  of  New  York  and  Brook- 
lyn, with  a  few  others,  were  invited  to  take  part  in  the  coun- 
cil called  to  ratify  the  action  of  the  church  as  to  the  retire- 
ment of  Dr.  Taylor,  the  call  to  Dr.  Stimson,  and  to  assist  in 
the  installation  services.  The  council  met  Tuesday,  October 
31st.  It  adopted  a  minute  expressing  the  regret  of  the 
churches  represented,  over  Dr.  Taylor's  necessary  resignation; 
their  gratitude  for  the  work  he  had  done,  and  their  love  for 
him.    This  short  extract  shows  its  tenor: 

"  His  character  has  been  to  us  all,  as  well  as  to  the  members  of  this 
congregation,  a  constant  and  vast  power  for  good.    His  tender  affec- 

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tionateness  has  won  our  hearts ;  while  the  learning  and  intellectual 
power  devoted  by  him  to  the  service  of  the  Lord  have  charmed  and 
commanded  us." 

The  council  approved  and  ratified  the  action  of  the  church 
in  retaining  Dr.  Taylor  as  pastor  emeritus,  and  in  calling  to 
be  his  successor  one  "  approved  an  able  and  faithful  minister 
of  Christ  by  years  of  labor  and  experience  and  of  distinguished 
success  in  the  service  of  the  Gospel."  At  the  installation  ser- 
vice the  prayer  of  invocation  was  offered  by  Rev.  A.  H.  Brad- 
ford, D.D.,  of  Montclair;  the  sermon  preached  by  Dr.  Stim- 
son's  father-in-law,  Dr.  Bartlett;  the  prayer  of  installation  by 
Rev.  A.  J.  F.  Behrends,  D.D. ;  the  charge  to  the  pastor  by 
Rev.  A.  J.  Lyman,  D.D. ;  the  charge  to  the  people  by  Dr. 
Storrs,  all  of  Brooklyn;  and  the  right  hand  of  fellowship  by 
Rev.  S.  H.  Virgin,  D.D.,  of  the  Pilgrim  Church,  New  York. 

Dr.  Stimson  was  settled  with  a  salary  of  $12,000,  his  re- 
moval expenses  were  paid,  and  his  house  furnished;  the  so- 
ciety also  assumed  $1,000  on  his  house  rent. 

The  Tabernacle  Church  was  now  facing  a  number  of  serious 
problems.  The  question  was  constantly  coming  up  whether 
it  would  be  wiser  for  the  church  to  remove,  as  it  had  done 
in  1859,  t0  a  s'te  farther  up  town.  Should  it  sell  the  prop- 
erty and  rebuild  elsewhere?  The  church  expenses  had  been 
met,  except  when  some  special  effort  was  put  forth  to  clear 
off  arrears,  by  pew-rentals;  but  pew-rentals  had  been  falling 
off  quite  steadily  since  they  reached  that  high-water  mark  of 
nearly  $38,000  in  1881.  The  decrease  had  been  gradual,  but 
by  1890  the  pew-rentals  were  $3,700  less,  and  by  1893  they 
were  more  than  $13,000  less,  and  a  debt  had  begun  to  accumu- 
late. The  church  membership  also  was  decreasing.  In  1880 
the  net  gain  in  membership  had  been  thirty-four,  but  in  the 
ten  years  beginning  with  that  date  the  net  gain  had  averaged 
but  twenty-two.  In  1889  it  was  but  eight;  in  1890  but  seven; 
and  from  that  time  until  1898  the  yearly  loss  exceeded  the 
gain.  A  large  proportion  of  the  removals  were  to  other 
churches  in  the  city,  most  of  them  farther  up  town. 

If  the  Tabernacle  Church  did  not  sell  its  property,  but  re- 

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mained  in  its  present  position,  it  would  evidently  be  neces- 
sary before  long  for  it  to  become  less  of  a  family  church  and 
to  bring  within  its  walls  a  more  miscellaneous  congregation, 
approximating  more  nearly  to  what  it  had  been  in  the  early 
years  of  its  history.  Neither  church  nor  society  was  ready 
to  decide  the  question,  and  it  was  of  necessity  left  to  be  de- 
cided by  time. 

The  new  pastor  was  a  sound  preacher,  especially  strong 
when  treating  of  missionary  themes,  and  an  able  platform 
speaker.  He  was  a  man  conservative  in  religious  opinion  but 
progressive  in  church  methods.  Eighteen  years  in  the  West 
had  but  emphasized  his  native  characteristics  of  energy  and 
executive  ability.  He  had  commanding  bodily  presence,  a  fine 
full  voice,  the  manner  and  qualities  of  a  leader,  and  he  began 
work  at  once.  The  church  roll  had  not  been  purged  of  ab- 
sentees for  a  long  time,  and  for  a  year  or  two  the  committee 
labored  assiduously  to  learn  the  actual  strength  of  the  church. 
In  1894  one  hundred  and  ninety-six  were  reported  on  the  ab- 
sentee list,  and  fellowship  was  withdrawn  from  four,  making 
a  reduction  in  the  nominal  membership  of  two  hundred.  This 
was  a  thankless  but  most  necessary  task. 

In  1893  the  Sunday-school  work  of  the  church  was  divided, 
a  morning  school  being  established,  which  met  for  an  hour's 
session  at  9.45  and  has  been  continued  to  the  present  time. 
A  society  of  Christian  Endeavor  was  organized,  October  1st, 
with  fifteen  members,  and  numbered  forty  before  the  year  was 
out.  A  junior  society  was  undertaken  on  November  8th,  and 
in  May  the  observance  of  Children's  Day  was  introduced  with 
a  presentation  of  infants  for  baptism,  and  a  gift  of  Bibles  to 
such  children  of  the  church  as  had  reached  the  age  of  seven 
years. 

Changes  in  the  order  of  admission  to  the  church  were 
adopted  in  1893  at  the  annual  meeting,  and  a  new  hymn  book 
was  introduced  when  the  church  came  together  after  the  sum- 
mer vacation. 

For  many  years  there  had  been  a  Home  Missionary  Society 
sustained  by  women  of  the  church ;  there  were  also  a  Young 

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Women's  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  and  other  forms  of 
associated  work  in  connection  with  Bethany  Church.  All 
these  were  working  independently  of  each  other  and  inde- 
pendently of  the  Woman's  Board  of  Missions  and  the  Wom- 
an's Home  Missionary  Union.  Under  Dr.  Stimson's  guidance 
these  missionary  societies  were  united  in  one  organization,  the 
Society  for  Woman's  Work,  and  became  allied  to  the  societies 
of  the  State. 

In  1893  Dr.  Stimson  was  made  a  member  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Congregational  Home  Missionary  So- 
ciety on  which  he  served  until  1896,  in  which  year  he  was 
made  president  of  the  Congregational  Church  Building  Society. 
He  was  again  elected  by  the  latter  the  following  year,  but  de- 
clined to  serve. 

Dr.  Taylor,  the  beloved  pastor  emeritus  of  the  church,  died 
on  Friday,  February  8,  1895.  On  Sunday  morning,  February 
10th,  the  pastor  preached  the  memorial  sermon.  The  funeral 
service  was  held  in  the  church  on  the  following  Tuesday. 
The  sermon  was  preached  by  Dr.  Storrs,  of  Brooklyn,  and 
Professor  Marvin  R.  Vincent,  D.D.,  Dr.  John  Hall,  and  Dr. 
A.  H.  Clapp  took  part  in  the  services.  In  addition  to  the 
anthem  and  hymn  sung  by  the  choir,  three  hymns  were  sung 
selected  by  Dr.  Taylor  several  years  before  in  anticipation  of 
his  death,  as  expressing  his  personal  faith.  They  were :  "  How 
sad  our  state  by  nature  is,"  "  O  could  I  speak  the  matchless 
worth,"  and  "  The  sands  of  time  are  sinking."  The  pall- 
bearers were  the  deacons  and  trustees  of  the  church. 

A  Memorial  Service  was  held  in  the  church  on  the  follow- 
ing Sunday  evening.  After  a  few  introductory  words  by  Dr. 
Stimson,  tributes  of  affectionate  appreciation  were  offered  by 
the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Hall,  President  Thomas  S.  Hastings,  D.D., 
Rabbi  Gustave  Gottheil,  D.D.,  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  M.  Buckley,  and 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  M.  Sanders.  These  addresses  by  clergy- 
men of  various  faiths,  with  the  memorial  and  funeral  sermons, 
were  published  under  the  title  "  William  Mackergo  Taylor," 
by  the  committee  of  the  church. 

In  May,   1895,  in  response  to  a  memorial   from  Bethany 

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Church,  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted  at  a  meeting 
of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church: 

"  Resolved,  That  we  recognize  the  good  beginning  which  Bethany 
Church  has  made  under  the  organization  of  1877  toward  the  object  of 
that  organization,  viz. :  a  condition  of  progressive  self-reliance  with  a 
view  to  ultimate  independence. 

"  Resolved,  That  the  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle 
be  reorganized  by  the  establishment  of  a  board  of  five  members;  with 
the  same  powers  and  duties  as  the  Board  of  Missions  now  existing; 
and  that  one  member  of  such  board  be  elected  by  Bethany  Church; 
and  whenever  two-fifths  of  the  current  expenses  of  any  year  shall  be 
borne  by  Bethany  Church  and  Sunday-school  and  so  certified  to  us  by 
the  Bethany  Board,  two  members  of  the  board  shall  be  chosen  by 
Bethany  Church  for  the  ensuing  year.  Meanwhile  the  remaining  mem- 
bers shall  be  elected  by  the  Broadway  Tabernacle. 

"  Resolved,  That  the  designation  '  Mission  '  be  henceforth  discon- 
tinued, and  to  that  end  the  board  be  designated  simply  Bethany  Board. 

"Resolved,  That  as  soon  as  in  the  judgment  of  Bethany  Board  the 
church  and  Sunday-school  are  able  to  raise  three-fifths  of  their  current 
expenses  the  board  report  the  fact  to  the  Tabernacle  Church." 

Dr.  Stimson  interested  himself  in  the  various  forms  of  work 
in  and  for  Bethany  Church,  and  it  was  his  initiative  that  in- 
stituted the  kindergarten  department. 

Before  the  close  of  1895  considerable  friction  was  manifest 
in  the  management  of  the  affairs  of  the  church  and  society. 
When  good  men  disagree  much  may  be  attributed  to  tem- 
peramental differences,  but  the  date  is  too  recent  to  write 
judicially  of  causes  over  which  the  church  was  divided.  More 
remoteness  is  necessary  for  a  true  perspective.  On  Wednes- 
day, April  8,  1896,  at  a  meeting  of  the  church  called  for  the  pur- 
pose, Dr.  Stimson  offered  his  resignation,  which,  after  discus- 
sion, was  accepted. 

A11  Ecclesiastical  Council,  consisting  of  the  same  churches 
that  had  been  present  at  the  installation,  was  convened  on 
April  28th.  In  its  "  Result "  the  Council  recognized  with  re- 
gret and  declared  the  termination  of  the  pastorate ;  it  referred 
to  Dr.  Stimson's  prosperous  work  in  St.  Louis;  his  hesitancy 
in  responding  to  the  call  of  the  Tabernacle  Church;  to  what 
he  had  accomplished  in  New  York,  and  the  confidence  in  him 

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of  other  pastors  in  the  neighborhood,  and  it  gave  him  warm 
commendation  as  an  able  and  honored  pastor  and  preacher, 
"  devoted  to  his  spiritual  work  and  full  of  rich  enthusiasm  for 
it,"  "  greatly  endeared  to  the  ministers  and  churches  of  the 
Council." 

The  society  voted  that  a  sum  equal  to  a  year's  salary  from 
the  date  of  his  retirement  should  be  paid  him  at  once,  and 
assumed  the  lease  of  his  dwelling  house,  relieving  him  from 
all  further  responsibility  on  that  account. 

During  the  year  sixty-six  members  of  the  Tabernacle 
Church  received  letters  of  dismissal  and  recommendation  to 
the  Manhattan  Church,  organized  October  23,  1896,  with  Dr. 
Stimson  as  pastor.  This  colony,  strengthened  by  the  acces- 
sion of  fourteen  more  at  later  dates,  constituted  a  strong 
nucleus  for  the  new  church  which,  after  worshipping  for 
nearly  five  years  in  Leslie  Hall  on  Eighty-third  Street  and 
Boulevard,  is  now  erecting  its  fine  house  of  worship  at  the 
corner  of  Broadway  and  Seventy-sixth  Street. 

Church  services  during  the  summer  of  1896  were  held 
in  the  Tabernacle  chapel  while  repairs  and  painting  were 
going  on  in  the  church  auditorium.  A  committee  to  nomi- 
nate a  pastor  was  appointed  consisting  of  Dr.  William  H. 
Thomson,  Messrs.  Joel  E.  Fisher,  Charles  L.  Mead,  Hamilton 
S.  Gordon,  Isaac  D.  Blodgett,  Edward  J*  Brown,  and  Dr.  Wil- 
liam L.  Stowell.  During  the  following  year  Messrs.  Blodgett 
and  Brown  resigned  from  this  committee,  and  power  was  given 
it  by  the  church  to  fill  these  vacancies.  The  committee,  as  it 
finally  stood,  consisted  of  Messrs.  William  H.  Thomson, 
Charles  L.  Mead,  H.  S.  Gordon,  William  L.  Stowell,  George 
L.  Leonard,  James  E.  Corsa,  and  Charles  E.  Mitchell. 

Rev>  Andrew  V.  V.  Raymond,  D.D.,  President  of  Union 
College,  was  engaged  as  regular  supply  during  the  winter  of 
1896.  His  services  were  so  highly  valued  that  he  was  engaged 
to  supply  the  Tabernacle  pulpit  during  the  following  year,  so 
far  as  his  duties  would  allow. 

Rev.  Frederick  B.  Richards  had  been  for  two  years  pastor 
of  Bethany  Church.     Being  known  to  the  people  of  the  Tab- 

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ernacle,  and  being,  himself,  much  at  home  with  them,  they 
naturally  turned  to  him  for  pastoral  service  out  of  the  pulpit. 
He  was  appointed,  in  1896,  assistant  pastor,  and  continued  to 
fill  the  office  until  September  1,  1898,  when  he  resigned  in 
order  to  assume  the  pastorate  of  the  Fourteenth  Street  Presby- 
terian Church.  At  his  departure  the  Tabernacle  Church  passed 
a  vote  recording  their  appreciation  of  the  ability  and  fidelity 
with  which  he  had  fulfilled  his  duty  in  both  churches.  Decem- 
ber 15,  1896,  Mr.  N.  Miller  Pratt,  who  had  been  an  effective 
worker  in  the  Bethany  field  while  pursuing  his  studies  in  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  was  ordained  to  the  Christian  ministry 
and  appointed  associate  pastor  of  Bethany  Church.  To  carry 
on  still  more  effectively  the  pastoral  work  of  the  Tabernacle, 
Miss  H.  M.  Rowe  was  employed  as  church  visitor. 

November  18,  1897,  Rev.  Charles  E.  Jefferson,  pastor  of 
the  Central  Congregational  Church  of  Chelsea,  Mass.,  preached 
in  the  Tabernacle.  He  was  not  before  the  people  as  a  candi- 
date, as  there  was  a  general  impression  at  that  time  that  Dr. 
Raymond  would  eventually  become  the  pastor  of  the  church. 
In  January  the  committee  waited  on  Dr.  Raymond  to  ascer- 
tain whether  he  would  take  a  call  into  consideration,  but  were 
informed  that  his  college  obligations  were  paramount,  and 
would  preclude  his  removal  to  New  York.  Their  minds  then 
turned  naturally  to  Mr.  Jefferson,  and  on  February  2,  1898, 
the  joint  committee,  appointed  by  church  and  society,  made  a 
unanimous  recommendation  that  a  call  be  given  to  him,  and 
a  salary  of  $10,000  offered.  This  recommendation  was  adopted 
by  a  vote  of  one  hundred  and  six  to  one.  The  call  which  was 
accordingly  given  included  a  clause,  suggested  by  The  C011- 
gregationalist  and  probably  here  used  for  the  first  time,  as 
follows : 

"  It  is  understood  and  agreed  that  if,  at  any  time,  either  party  shall 
be  convinced  that  the  pastoral  relation  thus  established  should  be  ter- 
minated, three  months'  notice  shall  be  given  (by  vote  of*  the  chjurch 
transmitted  to  the  pastor  by  its  clerk,  or  by  letter  from  the  pastor  to 
the  church),  and  the  matter  shall  be  referred  to  a  mutual  council  for 
approval  and  advice." 

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A  committee  waited  upon  Mr.  Jefferson  in  Chelsea  and 
brought  back  the  following  acceptance  of  the  call  they  had 
presented : 

"  To  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  and  Society: 
"  Dear  Brethren  : — 

"  Your  call  to  me  to  become  your  Pastor  and  Teacher  is  received ; 
and  I  accept  it.  If  agreeable  to  the  church  which  I  am  now  serving 
and  also  to  you,  we  will  begin  our  work  together  on  the  first  Sunday 
of  the  coming  month. 

"  I  fully  realize,  I  think,  the  vast  responsibility  which  I  take  upon 
me  in  assuming  the  leadership  of  your  church  in  the  great  work  which 
the  Lord  has  given  you  to  do.  But  the  chain  of  circumstances  leading 
up  to  your  calling  me  was  so  extraordinary  and  apparently  so  provi- 
dential that  I  cannot  help  feeling  that  the  Holy  Spirit  has  been  working 
both  in  your  hearts  and  in  mine  to  bring  us  together  at  this  important 
hour  in  the  history  of  the  Tabernacle  Church.  I  am  coming  then,  in 
the  full  assurance  that  it  is  God's  will  that  I  should  come;  and  with 
His  promised  grace  and  benediction  our  work  for  Him  cannot  be  in 
vain. 

"  Sincerely  yours, 

"  Charles  E.  Jefferson. 

"  Chelsea,  Mass.,  February  ioth,  1898." 

Rev.  Charles  Edward  Jefferson,  son  of  Dr.  M.  Jefferson,  was 
born  in  Cambridge,  O.,  August  29,  i860.  His  grandfather  on 
the  Jefferson  side  came  from  Virginia.  On  the  mother's  side, 
his  ancestors  were  from  the  Isle  of  Guernsey  and  had  in  their 
possession  the  estate  which  has  become  famous  in  recent  times 
as  having  been  the  home  of  Victor  Hugo.  Mr.  Jefferson  gradu- 
ated from  the  high  school  of  his  native  town  in  1877,  the 
valedictorian  of  his  class.  He  entered  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity at  Delaware  the  following  year,  and,  after  gaining  dis- 
tinction among  his  fellows  as  a  writer,  taking  the  highest  hon- 
ors at  the  Ohio  State  oratorical  contest,  in  1882,  and  filling 
the  position  of  editor-in-chief  of  the  college  paper  during  his 
Senior  year,  he  graduated  in  1882.  He  became  superintendent 
of  public  schools  in  Worthington,  O.,  that  autumn,  filling  the 
position  for  two  years.  The  second  year  he  was  also  study- 
ing law  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  James  E.  Wright  of  Colum- 
bus.    In  the  fall  of  1884  he  went  to  Boston  and  entered  the 

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middle  class  of  the  Boston  University  Law  School;  but,  fall- 
ing almost  immediately  under  the  influence  of  Phillips  Brooks, 
he  gave  up  the  law  for  the  ministry  and  entered  the  School 
of  Theology  of  the  same  university  in  the  winter  of  1884,  and 
graduated  in  June,  1887.  He  married  Miss  Belle  Patterson,  of 
Cambridge,  O.,  August  10,  1887.  On  September  4th,  of  the 
same  year,  he  became  pastor  of  the  Central  Church  of  Chelsea, 
Mass.,  where  he  continued  until  his  removal  to  New  York. 

Mr.  Jefferson  had  various  opportunities,  which  he  did  not 
embrace,  to  change  his  field  of  labor.  But  he  had  decided,  after 
some  years  in  Chelsea,  not  to  remain  there  longer  than  ten 
years.  Chelsea  is  overshadowed  by  Boston,  and  its  chance  of 
growth  is  small;  and  the  Central  Church,  it  seemed  to  him, 
had  been  developed  nearly  to  the  limit  of  its  possibilities.  In 
his  letter  of  resignation  he  gave  some  further  reasons  for  this 
decision : 

"  After  a  decade  of  hard  work  in  the  same  field  I  cannot  help  feeling 
that  I  ought  to  avail  myself  of  the  relief  which  a  change  of  pastorate 
affords.  The  life  of  a  city  minister  is  exacting  and  exhausting,  and  it 
refreshes  and  enlarges  a  man  to  give  him  occasionally  the  advantage 
of  a  change  of  problems  and  the  stimulus  of  a  new  environment." 

Meantime  the  Piedmont  Church,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  had 
made  overtures  to  Mr.  Jefferson  which  had  not  been  discour- 
aged, and  an  official  call  was  given  him  from  that  church  on 
January  21st,  while  the  Tabernacle  committee  were  considering 
the  matter  of  recommending  his  name  for  their  pastor.  Mr. 
Jefferson  stated  the  case  frankly  to  the  committee  of  the  Pied- 
mont Church ;  the  Tabernacle  committee  hastened  their  deci- 
sion ;  the  call  to  Worcester  was  declined  January  29th ;  resigna- 
tion of  the  Chelsea  pastorate  offered  February  2d ;  and  the 
whole  complication  managed  with  so  much  despatch,  tact,  cour- 
tesy, and  Christian  forbearance  that,  though  one  church  was 
bereaved  and  another  disappointed,  no  one  was  aggrieved. 

Mr.  Jefferson's  relations  with  his  church  in  Chelsea  had 
been  unusually  happy.  They  had  given  him  large  liberty,  en- 
thusiastic co-operation,  and  love ;   and  the  public  prints  of  the 

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day  assert  that  no  man  had  done  more  for  the  city  during  the 
ten  years  of  his  life  in  it  than  had  he.  He  led  and  engineered 
the  movement  which  had  made  Chelsea  for  eight  years  a  "  No- 
License  "  city,  besides  doing  much  for  the  good  name  of  the 
town  in  other  ways.  His  influence  was  recognized  through- 
out the  whole  region,  and  when  a  farewell  reception  was  ten- 
dered the  pastor  and  his  wife,  in  the  two  hours  between  eight 
and  ten  in  the  evening,  more  than  1,200  persons  took  them  by 
the  hand;  and  the  Mayor  and  Board  of  Aldermen,  who  had 
been  in  session  all  the  evening,  dropped  their  work  long  enough 
to  come  to  the  church  a  few  moments  before  ten  o'clock  that 
they  too  might  add  their  word  of  appreciation  and  good-will. 

Mr.  Jefferson  was  dismissed  from  his  charge  in  Chelsea  by 
a  council  held  on  February  28th,  then,  followed  by  the  love 
and  prayers  of  the  church  from  which  he  had  parted,  he  be- 
gan work  in  New  York  on  the  Sunday  appointed. 

The  ecclesiastical  council  called  for  his  installation,  which 
included  all  the  Congregational  churches  in  the  Manhattan- 
Brooklyn  Conference  together  with  the  churches  in  Montclair, 
N.  J.,  and  the  Central  Church,  of  Chelsea,  Mass.,  convened  on 
April  19th.  The  council  approved  the  action  of  the  church,  and 
the  installation  ensued.  The  clergymen  who  took  part  in  the 
service  were  as  follows:  Rev.  R.  J.  Kent,  D.D.,  Lewis  Avenue 
Church,  Brooklyn,  Prayer  of  Invocation;  Rev.  Franklin  Gay- 
lord,  Trinity  Church,  New  York,  Scripture  Lesson ;  Rev.  A. 
Huntington  Clapp,  D.D.,  Prayer  of  Installation ;  Rev.  A.  J.  F. 
Behrends,  D.D.,  Central  Church,  Brooklyn,  Sermon;  Rev.  R. 
R.  Meredith,  D.D.,  Tompkins  Avenue  Church,  Brooklyn, 
charge  to  the  pastor ;  Rev.  A.  J.  Lyman,  D.D.,  South  Church, 
Brooklyn,  Right  Hand  of  Fellowship.  The  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  Mr.  Jefferson,  in  1898,  from 
Union  and  Oberlin  Colleges. 

Dr.  Jefferson  is  a  master  of  English,  an  artist  in  words.  He 
has  a  keen  incisive  style,  and  he  holds  his  audience  to  the  last 
word.  In  a  quiet  way,  without  haste,  without  rest,  he  carries 
on  the  work  before  him,  the  cure  of  souls. 

A  gain  of  membership  began  the  first  year.    The  work  be- 

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gun  by  Mr.  Richards  before  his  departure,  of  sending  letters 
to  pastors  of  churches  in  New  England  and  elsewhere,  was 
continued  in  1898.  A  circular  letter  was  sent  to  2,500  Con- 
gregational churches  inviting  them  to  give  letters  of  introduc- 
tion to  any  young  men  or  women  who  were  intending  to  make 
New  York  City  their  home,  in  order  that  they  might  more 
easily  find  their  way  to  the  Tabernacle  and  receive  a  more 
prompt  welcome.  Among  other  new  methods  introduced  were 
a  class  for  the  study  of  present-day  problems  as  related  to 
the  church,  meeting  Sunday  afternoons,  led  by  Dr.  Philip  W. 
Ayres ;  a  church  monthly  publication,  The  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle Tidings,  edited  by  the  pastor ;  and  a  service  of  song  held 
each  Sunday  afternoon.  Collections  at  Sunday  morning  and 
evening  services  were  also  introduced  for  the  payment  of  cur- 
rent expenses,  except  when  otherwise  designated  for  specific 
objects. 

The  Wednesday  evening  prayer-meetings  took  on  a  new  in- 
terest, and  the  seats  filled  until  it  has  now  become  a  live  and 
delightful  mid-week  service.  Besides  this,  during  his  short 
term  of  service,  Dr.  Jefferson  has  substituted  the  observance 
of  Holy  Week  for  the  Week  of  Prayer  in  January ;  has  intro- 
duced the  keeping  of  watch  night  and  an  after  meeting  Sunday 
evenings,  from  January  1st  to  Easter;  has  organized  an  effort 
to  reach  students ;  has  presented  yearly  a  valuable  pastoral  re- 
port; and  has  magnified  Bible  study  so  that  now  the  name 
"  Sunday-school "  has  been  superseded  by  the  more  definite 
"  Bible  school." 

During  the  winter  of  1900-1901  Mr.  G.  Andrew  Gordon,  a 
post-graduate  student  in  Union  Theological  Seminary,  ren- 
dered useful  service  as  pastor's  assistant,  and  has  been  engaged 
to  give  his  whole  time  to  the  church  after  his  ordination  in 
June. 

The  celebration  of  the  sixtieth  anniversary  of  the  church 
must  be  credited  to  Dr.  Jefferson.  The  fiftieth  anniversary  had 
passed  without  special  notice,  and  when  the  sixtieth  arrived  the 
church  was  none  too  ready  to  believe  that  a  celebration  could 
be  made  a  success.     Dr.  Jefferson,  however,  knew  that  inertia 

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could  be  overcome,  and  he  held  fast  to  his  purpose  until  the  tide 
of  interest  began  to  swell  and  the  whole  congregation  was  swept 
along  in  a  wave  of  enthusiasm,  to  make  ready  as  noble  a  church 
celebration  as  the  city  has  ever  seen. 

In  a  masterly  sermon  preached  January  27,  1901,  after  the 
celebration  was  over,  Dr.  Jefferson  took  occasion  to  map  out 
what  in  his  judgment  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  of  the 
future  should  be.  In  response  to  that  sermon,  by  Easter  morn- 
ing enough  pledges  had  been  given  to  wipe  out  the  floating 
debt  of  the  church,  and  the  beginning  had  been  made  of  a 
fund,  the  income  of  which  shall  be  used  for  the  employment 
of  assistants  in  church  work. 

But  Dr.  Jefferson  has  done  a  better  work  for  the  church  than 
this :  he  has  united  and  welded  together  the  separate  atoms  of 
church  membership,  promoted  fellowship,  created  a  general 
confidence  and  harmony.  And  as  it  is  the  glory  of  the  Con- 
gregational churches  to  magnify  the  preached  word  in  the 
public  assembly,  as  was  the  custom  of  our  Lord,  His  apostles, 
and  the  early  church,  so  he  has  taught  the  people  righteous- 
ness, and  has  preached  so  as  to  warn  sinners,  comfort  saints, 
and  has  done  both  for  the  glory  of  God. 


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CHAPTER   IX. 

CHURCH   ACTIVITIES. 

The  temporal  affairs  of  the  Tabernacle  Church  and  Society, 
according  to  the  custom  of  Congregationalists,  have  been  in 
the  charge  of  a  Board  of  Trustees.  Their  work  is  responsible, 
burdensome,  and  too  often  unappreciated.  The  list  of  those 
who  have  thus  given  their  best  business  knowledge  and  skill  to 
this  service  is  found  with  other  lists  of  officers  upon  another 
page. 

DEACONS,    CHURCH    COMMITTEE. 

In  the  Tabernacle  the  deacons,  as  well  as  pastors,  are  per- 
manent officers  of  the  church.  They  not  only  are  a  component 
part  of  the  church  committee  but  they  perform  special  duties, 
among  which  is  care  of  the  needy  sick  and  poor  of  the  church. 
During  the  past  twenty-five  years  the  deacons  have  distributed 
from  the  fund  entrusted  to  them,  in  behalf  of  brethren  and 
sisters  of  the  church,  in  money  and  the  cost  of  coal,  medical 
service,  funeral  expenses,  etc.,  an  amount  averaging  about 
$1,204  yearly.  Besides  this  and  ordinary  expenses  of  the 
fund  they  paid  for  Centre  Street  Mission  $1,200,  for  Armenian 
relief  $100,  and  for  a  hospital-bed  fund  $2,772.56. 

For  a  long  course  of  years  a  clerk,  treasurer  and  four  breth- 
ren, all  annually  elected  by  the  church,  together  with  the  per- 
manent officers,  constituted  the  Church  Committee.  After 
1889,  when  the  election  of  the  superintendent  of  the  Sunday- 
school  was  put  in  the  hands  of  the  church,  "  a  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday-school  "  was  added  to  the  committee,  and  in 
1893  the  Permanent  Rule  read  "  Superintendents  of  the  Sun- 
day-schools of  the  Church."  In  1899  the  number  of  elected 
members  was  made  nine,  as  the  rule  reads  at  present.  The 
general  oversight  of  the  interests  of  the  church  devolves  upon 

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this  committee,  and  for  many  years  they  appointed  and  planned 
the  church  sociables  or  pastor's  receptions  with  aid  from  the 
Young  Men's  Association.  The  names  of  those  trusted  breth- 
ren who  have  been  elected  to  this  service  of  the  church  are 
given  with  the  lists  of  officers. 

SEXTONS. 

The  first  sexton  whose  name  appears  in  the  records  was 
Mr.  Savery,  probably  Mr.  John  S.  Savery,  who  was  one  of 
the  sixty-six  original  members.  He  was  in  office  until  1842. 
At  that  time  his  salary  was  $300  and  house-rent  (in  the  build- 
ing). The  following  year  Mr.  W.  H.  Snow  was  appointed. 
He  united  with  the  church  that  year.  At  first  the  sexton  had 
charge  of  renting  the  pews ;  but  when  Deacon  Pitts  was  ap- 
pointed steward  that  work  devolved  upon  him.  In  1849  tne 
sexton  received  $250.  At  what  time  Mr.  Walter  Reid  was 
appointed  is  not  known.  "  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reid,  kind,  excel- 
lent people,"  lived  in  the  building.  He  was  employed  prob- 
ably as  early  as  1846,  and  in  1852  he  was  sexton  with  salary 
of  $500.  May  31,  1854,  Mr.  Frederick  Boyd  was  engaged 
and  filled  the  position  for  forty-two  years  until  his  death, 
March  3,  1896.  On  taking  up  the  work  in  the  new  Tabernacle 
his  salary  was  fixed  at  $2,000,  and  remained  about  the  same 
until  it  became  necessary  to  supply  more  assistance  for  him, 
when  he  received  $350  less.  Mr.  Boyd  was  succeeded  by  Mr. 
W.  R.  Fearn,  who  has  continued  to  fill  the  office  until  the 
present.  From  the  first,  all  the  sextons  have  been  members 
of  the  church. 

Since  1893  there  has  been  a  committee  on  pews,  who  have 
charge  of  renting  seats.  The  committee  of  1900  consisted  of 
Messrs.  Irving  R.  Fisher  and  Robert  B.  Fleming. 

THE     CHOIR. 

From  its  organization,  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  has  rec- 
ognized more  fully  than  have  most  churches,  the  honored  place 
of  psalms  and  hymns  and  spiritual  songs  in  Christian  service. 
Dr.  Finney  found  music  to  be  the  handmaid  of  religion ;    Mr. 

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Hale,  with  his  household,  aided  and  built  up  the  choir.  Dr. 
Thompson's  versatile  gifts  included  a  keen  appreciation  and 
love  of  the  best  music  the  age  afforded,  and  the  service  of 
music,  in  the  public  worship  of  the  church,  has  always  been 
entrusted  to  the  church  committee  as  a  religious  charge,  rather 
than  to  the  Board  of  Trustees.     Said  Dr.  Thompson : 

"  It  has  been  the  policy  of  this  church  to  sustain  a  large  and  well- 
trained  choir,  composed  as  far  as  possible  of  those  associated  with  the 
church,  and  thus  to  render  the  singing  a  prominent  part  of  the  worship 
of  God.  By  this  means  hundreds  have  been  attracted  hither  who  have 
received  the  preached  word  into  good  ground  and  brought  forth  abun- 
dant fruit."  * 

Church  music  in  New  York  at  the  date  of  the  organization 
of  the  Tabernacle  Church  was  much  influenced  by  Dr.  Thomas 
Hastings,  who  was  strenuous  in  his  efforts  to  have  the  praises 
of  God  in  the  church  sung  by  Christian  men  and  women. 
The  choir  of  the  Tabernacle  was  under  strong  religious  con- 
trol; its  leading  spirits  were  devout  men  and  women,  and 
many  young  people  came,  by  way  of  the  choir,  into  the  church. 

The  choir  was  organized  in  1840  by  Mr.  George  Andrews, 
who  joined  the  church  by  certificate  in  1842.  His  services  at 
first  seem  to  have  been  voluntary,  but  by  1843  he  received  $400, 
raised  by  subscription.  The  following  year  a  regular  salary 
of  $200  was  paid  him.  This  may  have  been  increased  by  sub- 
scription. He  continued  as  leader  until  May  16,  1848.  Dur- 
ing his  temporary  absence  in  1842,  Mr.  Stephen  Conover  con- 
ducted the  choir  "  in  a  highly  creditable  manner."  Mr.  W. 
Alpers,  a  fine  musician,  was  organist  until  his  resignation  in 
1845.  One  t  wh°  was  an  occasional  attendant  upon  the  Tab- 
ernacle services  during  the  first  years  of  its  history  writes 
that  he  has  "  forgotten  who  the  minister  was,  but  not  the 
organist,  W.  Alpers."  When  Mr.  Alpers  missed  a  service 
his  seat  at  the  organ  was  occupied  by  Mr.  Hale's  daughter, 
Lucy,  who  played  the  piano  for  choir  rehearsals.  An  organ 
was  placed  in  the  choir  gallery  back  of  the  pulpit  in  1844  by 

*  Last  Sabbath  in  the  Broadway  Tabernacle,  p.  51. 
f  Mr.  Samuel  W.  Green,  Brooklyn. 

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the    "  organ    association,"    to    be    used    at    church    services, 
"  without  rent  or  charge." 

The  first  hymn  and  tune  book  used  by  the  church  was  the 
"  Christian  Psalmist  or  Watts's  Psalms  and  Hymns  with  co- 
pious selections  from  other  sources,"  prepared  by  Doctors 
Hastings  and  W.  Patton,  and  published  in  1836.  For  two  or 
three  years  the  church  discussed  a  change  of  hymn  books. 
"  The  Church  Psalmist,"  prepared  by  Dr.  Beman  of  Troy, 
"  for  Evangelical  Christians,"  had  been  suggested  as  a  sub- 
stitute; but  the  committee  to  whom  the  matter  was  referred, 
in  1845,  consisting  of  Messrs.  Henry  Camp,  George  Andrews, 
and  David  Hale,  with  Mr.  Huntington,  reported  that  it  was 
inexpedient  to  make  the  change.  It  was  not  until  1849 
that  Dr.  Beman's  book  was  adopted.  Mr.  Samuel  G.  Smith, 
who  attended  the  Tabernacle  services  from  1843  to  1846,  re- 
calls an  incident  which  must  have  had  some  connection  with 
this  discussion.  After  commending  a  sacred  concert,  given 
by  the  choir  under  Mr.  Andrews,  probably  the  anniversary 
concert  given  Friday  evening,  May  10,  1844,  he  says: 

"  The  Tabernacle  had  a  grand,  imposing  choir,  and  their  music  was 
always  well  adapted  to  the  sentiments  of  the  hymns.  Dr.  Beman  of 
Troy  preached  on  sacred  music  one  Sunday  evening,  as  he  occupied 
the  pulpit  that  day,  and  in  the  middle  of  his  discourse  made  some 
scriptural  quotation,  and  the  choir  at  once  took  it  up  and  rendered  a 
fine  anthem  on  the  words,  found  in  the  '  Carmina  Sacra '  collection." 

Among  the  singers  of  the  first  period  were  Mr.  Jeremiah  C. 
Lamphear,  Mr.  Andrews's  business  partner,  and  Messrs.  Henry 
Camp,  Chase,  S.  Conover,  Fessenden,  David  and  Richard 
Hale,  Huntington,  William  Taylor,  Edward  F.  Treadwell, 
and  Charles  H.  Waterbury.  Mr.  Treadwell,  who  united  with 
the  church  in  1843,  was  led  to  Christ  while  on  a  voyage  to 
Buenos  Ayres  by  his  friend  Richard  Hale  of  the  choir,  who 
lent  him  Doddridge's  "  Rise  and  Progress  "  to  read.  Among 
the  women  singers  of  that  period  were  Mrs.  George  Andrews 
(Miss  Conover),  Lucy  T.  Hale  (Mrs.  Conover),  Rosina 
Hamill  (Mrs.  Treadwell),  Laura  Hale  (Mrs.  Camp),  Sarah 

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M.  Dempsey  (Mrs.  Moore),  and  Emma  Taylor  (Mrs.  Gilson). 
Mr.  J.  L.  Ensign,  an  able  musician  and  leader  of  the  orchestra 
of  the  Philharmonic  Society,  succeeded  Mr.  Alpers  as  organist 
in  1845,  at  a  salary  of  $275.  He  was  converted  under  Dr. 
Thompson's  ministry  and  admitted  to  the  church  May  3,  1846. 
He  is  remembered  not  only  as  a  musician,  but  as  "  a  conse- 
crated man."  When  Mr.  Andrews  resigned  his  position  as 
choir-master,  Mr.  Ensign  was  appointed  sole  director  with  a 
salary  of  $500.  The  Bradbury  brothers  were  highly  esteemed 
at  that  time  as  musical  leaders,  and  William  B.  Bradbury  was 
engaged  in  1850  as  vocal  leader,  receiving  for  his  services 
$500  and  the  use  of  the  Tabernacle  two  evenings  in  the  year 
for  concerts,  Mr.  William  G.  West  proposing  to  pay  $300  ad- 
ditional. Mr.  Ensign  continued  as  organist.  November, 
185 1,  a  vote  was  passed  that  "the  music  as  at  present  con- 
ducted meets  with  the  hearty  approval  of  the  Society."  Mr. 
Bradbury's  compositions  have  been  used  for  many  years  in 
the  church,  the  prayer-meeting,  and  the  Sunday-school,  and 
have  many  sacred  associations  with  them.  The  tunes  to  which 
are  sung  "  He  leadeth  me,"  "  Just  as  I  am,"  "  O  bliss  of  the 
purified !  "  "  My  hope  is  built  on  nothing  less,"  "  Sweet  hour 
of  prayer,"  "  Asleep  in  Jesus,  blessed  sleep !  "  and  many  others 
equally  familiar,  are  his. 

Mr.  Ensign,  who  removed  from  the  city  early  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1854,  was  followed  by  the  special  benediction  of  the 
church  committee;  but  he  left  trouble  behind.  Mr.  Brad- 
bury could  not  be  re-engaged  at  satisfactory  terms,  and  the 
choir  were  not  pleased  with  the  arrangements  made  for  their 
leadership.  Mr.  George  Andrews  was  called  back  for  a  sea- 
son, but  affairs  were  at  loose  ends  until,  at  last,  Mr.  F.  H. 
Nash  was  secured  as  choir-master,  and  Mr.  C.  C.  Converse 
as  organist.  Thanks  to  this  difficulty  in  settling  upon  a 
chorister,  the  names  are  preserved  of  many,  if  not  all,  of  the 
male  members  of  the  volunteer  choir  of  1854,  attached  to  a 
protest  or  memorial  in  regard  to  the  casting  of  votes,  at  meet- 
ings of  the  society,  by  unqualified  members.  As  a  result  of 
this  protest  the  qualifications  of  members  were  settled  defi- 

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nitely  after  some  months  of  discussion.  The  names  of  these 
protestants  are  given  below :  James  D.  Smith,  S.  W.  Holister, 
A.  Shannon,  T.  F.  Brinsmade,  John  Gridley,  E.  L.  Champlin, 
A.  C.  Peck,  R.  A.  Dorman,  W.  G.  West,  Warren  Ward,  S. 
A.  Castle,  E.  W.  Pratt,  Alexander  Anderson,  F.  W.  Sher- 
man,  Isaac  E.   Smith,   P.  F.   Whiting,  Demarest.     At 

the  end  of  two  years  Mr.  Converse  went  abroad,  but  before 
leaving  he  asked  the  privilege  of  uniting  with  the  church  upon 
confession  of  faith.  His  music  is  not  yet  outworn.  Wor- 
shippers who  sing  "  What  a  friend  we  have  in  Jesus,"  or 
"  There's  a  wideness  in  God's  mercy,"  naturally  make  use  of 
his  familiar  composition.  Mr.  John  W.  Crane,  Jr.,  was  en- 
gaged to  succeed  Mr.  Converse  as  organist,  and  he,  too,  united 
with  the  church  on  profession  the  following  year. 

Already  the  custom  had  begun  of  paying  one  or  two  of 
the  women  singers.  For  some  years  before  leaving  the  old 
Tabernacle,  about  $1,000  a  year  was  appropriated  for  the 
expenses  of  the  choir.  Among  the  singers  specified  are  Miss 
Meyers,  Miss  Parks,  Mrs.  Martin,  and  Miss  Jenny  Smith. 
Mr.  Nash  was  the  leader  when  the  old  Tabernacle  was  given 
up  in  1857,  but  he  resigned  soon  after  that  date,  and  Mr.  James 
Davis  succeeded  him. 

In  1858  Mr.  W.  B.  Bradbury  was  requested  to  prepare  and 
conduct  the  music  for  the  dedication  services,  and  to  organize 
a  choir  for  that  occasion.  He  did  this  work  gratuitously  and 
received  therefor  a  special  vote  of  thanks,  which  included  also 
Mr.  Henry  Camp  and  the  choir.  But  the  singing  gallery  or 
loft  in  the  new  church  was  unsatisfactory.  The  choir  was 
divided  with  the  organ  intervening  so  that  the  two  sections 
could  not  hear  each  other  or  keep  together;  consequently  the 
large  choir  was  given  up,  and  only  a  quartette  or  double  quar- 
tette retained. 

At  that  period  Mr.  Henry  Camp  was  choir-master  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church.  He  was  also  engaged  for  the 
Tabernacle,  where  he  sang  only  in  the  evening — with  Mr.  Mor- 
gan as  organist.  He  thus  took  charge  of  both  choirs  until  he 
went  with  his  regiment  to  Washington  in  1861,  and  was  suc- 

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ceeded  in  the  Tabernacle  by  Mr.  George  N.  Seymour,  who 
retained  the  charge  until  his  death,  three  years  later.  Mr. 
Camp,  however,  before  he  left,  secured  the  services  of  Miss 
Marian  McGregor,  better  known  as  Mrs.  Christopher,  who 
remained  as  organist  until  1885,  except  for  an  absence  of  be- 
tween one  and  two  years  about  1870,  when  Mr.  During  took 
her  place.  It  is  said  that  Mr.  Camp  found  it  hard  to  persuade 
Dr.  Thompson  and  the  committee,  before  Miss  McGregor's  ar- 
rival, that  a  woman  could  handle  that  great  organ. 

Mr.  George  E.  Aiken  succeeded  Mr.  Seymour;  and  Mr. 
Camp,  Mr.  George  G.  Rockwood,  and  other  well-known  sing- 
ers in  New  York  assisted  in  making  the  famous  musical  af- 
fairs which  were  a  feature  of  the  big  services  in  the  war  time 
and  at  its  close. 

In  1867  the  Committee  on  the  Order  of  Sunday  Service  di- 
rected that  the  anthem  that  was  to  be  sung  should  be  read, 
morning  and  evening,  and  it  was  "  understood  "  by  the  com- 
mittee that  the  "  choir  should  be  present  at  the  weekly  pray- 
er-meeting." About  1871  or  1872,  Harry  Millerd,  the  famous 
ballad  writer,  was  director.  It  was  while  he  was  choir-master, 
in  January,  1872,  that  an  interesting  petition  in  relation  to  a 
change  in  the  order  of  Sabbath  singing  was  presented  to  the 
committee,  who,  not  having  been  altogether  satisfied  with  the 
character  of  the  opening  anthems,  had  restricted  the  choir  to 
"  two  selections  of  music,  chants,  hymns,  or  anthems,  chosen 
by  the  committee  of  the  church."  Their  selection  of  the  Dox- 
ology  in  place  of  an  anthem  proved  still  less  satisfactory. 
This  petition  was  drawn  up  in  Mrs.  Marshall  O.  Roberts's 
handwriting  and  hers  is  the  first  signature: 

"  We,  deeming  the  late  change  in  the  music  detrimental  to  the  in- 
terests of  the  church  and  also  a  great  deprivation  to  us  individually, 
respectfully  pray  that  the  former  order  of  service  be  resumed,  restoring 
to  us  both  the  opening  selection  of  praise  and  the  anthem  after  the 
first  hymn." 

Among  the  leading  women  singers  up  to  this  time  were 
Mrs.  Elliot  (Anna  Stone,  Boston's  famous  oratorio  and  concert 

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singer),  Mrs.  Northrup,  Mrs.  Brown,  Miss  Meyers,  and  Miss 
Charlotte  V.  Hutchins  (Mrs.  Winterburn).  Mr.  Rockwood 
followed  as  choir-master  and  again  introduced  the  double 
quartette  with  some  really  famous  singers,  Jules  Lombard,  Miss 
Kate  Stark,  Mrs.  Doty.  This  was  when  Mr.  William  Allen 
was  chairman  of  the  music  committee.  He  fostered  and  en- 
couraged the  department  in  many  ways.  A  number  of  singers 
attended  weekly  prayer-meeting;  Mrs.  Doty  led  the  singing 
there,  and  Miss  Kate  Stark  in  the  Sunday-school. 

Afterward  Mr.  Aiken  returned  with  a  single  quartette,  at 
the  head  of  which  for  a  short  time  was  Miss  Emma  Thursby, 
who  was  paid  at  the  rate  of  $3,500.  Later  organists  have 
been  Professors  S.  N.  Penfield,  George  N.  Greene,  and  Mr. 
Charles  B.  Hawley,  who  was  basso  for  seventeen  years  and 
is  in  his  twentieth  year  of  continuous  service  as  conductor. 
Miss  Marie  S.  Bissell  has  also  rendered  long  and  faithful  ser- 
vice as  soprano.  Among  other  noted  singers  in  the  Taber- 
nacle choir  may  be  mentioned  Miss  Louise  Finch  (Mrs.  Har- 
denburgh),  Miss  Toedt,  Miss  Henrietta  Beebe,  and  Mr. 
Dennison. 

In  1875  the  amount  paid  for  the  support  of  music  had  gone 
up  from  the  modest  thousand  dollars  a  year  to  $6,241.  By 
1881  this  amount  had  fallen  off  about  $2,000;  then  it  rose 
gradually  until  by  1891  it  amounted  to  $6,793.70.  Since  1893, 
however,  the  amount  spent  for  the  choir  yearly  has  stood  some- 
where between  $4,000  and  $5,000. 

THE    BIBLE    SCHOOL.       , 

The  beginning  of  the  Sunday-school  has  already  been  men- 
tioned in  a  former  chapter.  A  pupil  of  the  school  *  in  the 
early  days  of  Dr.  Thompson,  writes : 

"  We  met  at  nine  in  the  morning,  and  how  cold  it  was  sometimes  for 
us  little  folks  who  trudged  over  from  East  Broadway  of  a  winter  morn- 
ing, hurrying  to  be  there  in  time !  I  think  the  afternoon  session  must 
have  been  at  two,  and  church  at  three  or  half-past  three.     The  inter- 

*  Miss  Emily  S.  Gilman. 

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mission  [between  morning  service  and  afternoon  school]  was  quite  long 
enough  for  lunch,  which  we  brought,  and  for  considerable  exploring 
and  inspecting  of  the  building,  trying  seats  in  the  gallery,  choir,  pulpit, 
even  the  little  mirror  in  which  the  organist  could  see  the  minister's 
movements.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  attendance  in  the  afternoon  varied 
from  that  in  the  morning,  perhaps  it  brought  a  different  set  of  children. 
"  The  neighborhood  was  a  very  bad  one,  near  the  old  Five  Points, 
and  my  sisters,  who  were  teachers,  went  to  some  very  questionable 
places  in  looking  up  scholars.  Our  very  walk  to  church — more  than  a 
mile — was  a  choice  of  evils.  We  could  go  through  Chatham  Street  to 
Pearl,  and  so  over  to  Broadway,  or  through  Walker  Street.  Grand 
Street  was  a  little  better  because  there  were  stores  there,  but  it  was 
longer.  Those  were  the  days  of  vile  smells  and  dirty  streets.  Pigs  ran 
freely  in  the  streets  of  the  Seventh  Ward  and  sewers  were  the  excep- 
tion, not  the  rule." 

No  records  of  the  school  in  lower  Broadway  have  been 
found,  but  programmes  have  been  preserved  of  large  Sunday- 
school  celebrations  and  concerts  held  in  the  Tabernacle,  and 
a  Sunday-school  missionary  meeting  is  recalled  that  was  held 
in  the  church  one  Sunday  evening,  when  small  children  filled 
the  choir  gallery  until  all  the  space  was  occupied  even  close 
to  the  organist.  In  1847  the  church  committee  voted  that  the 
"  Sunday-school  Missionary  Association "  should  "  hold  a 
public  meeting  on  the  Sabbath,  November  22d,  and  take  up 
a  collection."    Probably  that  was  the  same  occasion. 

About  1854  the  Sunday-school  was  in  the  care  of  "  Brother 
William  G.  West."  From  1859  to  1866  the  superintendents 
were  Mr.  Starr,  Deacon  Holmes,  Deacon  Smith,  Mr.  Charles 
A.  Bull,  and  "Brother  Pardee"  in  1865.  Mr.  Caleb  B. 
Knevals  was  chosen  for  that  office  in  1866,  and  served  for 
twenty  years.  Mr.  Knevals  was  succeeded  by  Messrs.  John 
Lindley  (who  served  1886  and  1887);  E.  P.  Lyon,  1888; 
and  R.  A.  Dorman,  1889-92.  In  October,  1893,  a  morning 
session  was  introduced,  with  Mr.  W.  H.  Sherman  superin- 
tendent. Mr.  Rufus  Adams  was  superintendent  of  the  after- 
noon school,  1893-94,  and  Mr.  Herbert  G.  Thomson  of 
the  morning  school,  1894-95.  Mr.  Irving  C.  Gaylord  was 
chosen  superintendent  of  the  afternoon  school  in  1895,  and 
the  following  year  that  department  was  relinquished,  the  Pri- 

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mary  Class  only,  holding  both  morning  and  afternoon  sessions. 
Mr.  Thomson  and  Mr.  Gaylord  superintended  the  joint  school. 
In  1897  Mr.  Harris  H.  Hayden  was  elected,  and  has  served  as 
superintendent  to  the  present  time.  Several  assistants  filled 
long  terms  of  service ;  among  these  should  be  mentioned  Messrs. 
A.  K.  Thompson,  William  Ives  Washburn,  and  Nathaniel  C. 
Fisher.  The  average  attendance  during  the  twenty  years  of 
Mr.  Knevals's  term  of  office  was  between  three  and  four  hun- 
dred. Miss  Sarah  Smith  had  charge  of  the  infant  class  for 
many  years.  As  early  as  1865  she  taught  the  little  children. 
Mrs.  Lefferts  Strebeigh,  who  was  one  of  her  scholars,  says : 

"  A  sweeter,  finer  nature  to  teach  little  children,  it  seems  to  me,  could 
never  have  been  found.    We  all  loved  her." 

In  1881  Miss  Smith  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Henry  Hayes 
and  Miss  May  Leveridge.  When  Miss  Smith  relinquished  the 
class  in  1882  Miss  Leveridge  took  her  place,  aided  by  Miss 
Fanny  Sanford.  The  following  year  Mrs.  D.  S.  Pillsbury 
took  charge,  serving  indefatigably  for  six  years.  Her  suc- 
cessor was  Miss  Isobel  M.  Taylor,  1889-92.  Then  Miss  El- 
len C.  Parsons  succeeded  to  the  charge ;  afterward,  when  the 
morning  school  was  established,  taking  that  session  and  holding 
it  unto  the  present.  The  afternoon  class  was  in  charge  of  Mrs. 
Rufus  Adams  until  her  death.  She  was  followed  by  Miss  J. 
Jillson,  and  Mrs.  J.  S.  Warren  has  the  present  charge.  Most  of 
these  teachers  have  had  one  or  more  able  assistants.  Last  year 
a  Home  Department  numbering  thirty-three  was  established 
under  the  superintendence  of  Miss  Teasdale.  The  Tabernacle 
has  been  rich  in  gifted  Bible  teachers,  but  their  work  has  not 
been  faithfully  reported.  There  have  been  Sunday  morning 
and  afternoon  classes,  and  classes  on  week-days.  Rev.  Dr. 
Thompson  had  a  young  men's  Bible  class,  as  well  as  his  class 
for  women,  and  it  was  at  the  request  of  these  young  men  that  he 
wrote  "  The  Sergeant's  Memorial."  Among  these  young  men 
were  Messrs.  Austin  Abbott,  W.  H.  Bridgman,  Charles  Bell, 
Henry  C.  Hall,  Charles  T.  Rodgers,  W.  H.  Thomson,  and 

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Charles  S.  Smith.  Dr.  William  H.  Thomson  has  held  Sunday 
classes  morning  or  afternoon;  as  early  as  1866  he  had  a  ladies' 
class,  and  in  1868  a  class  for  young  men  on  Sunday  mornings,  to 
say  nothing  of  his  wider  service  at  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association.  Mr.  Abbott  had  a  young  men's  class  in 
1866,  and  Mr.  Wakeman  a  Sunday  afternoon  class.  Dr.  Tay- 
lor had  his  Pastor's  Bible  class.  Among  Bible  class  teachers 
in  the  Sunday-school  have  been  Mr.  W.  W.  Fessenden,  Dr. 
Lafayette  Ranney,  Mr.  Samuel  Burnham,  Mr.  John  H.  Wash- 
burn, Mrs.  Doran,  Mr.  Platner,  Mrs.  Clarence  Beebe,  Mr.  F.  L. 
Underwood,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Dorman,  and  Mr.  George  L.  Leonard. 
Other  successful  teachers  of  the  later  period  have  been  Pro- 
fessor A.  D.  F.  Hamlin,  General  O.  O.  Howard,  Rev.  F.  B. 
Richards,  and  Professor  D.  H.  Holmes. 

In  1886  the  Sunday-school  was  put  more  directly  under  the 
charge  of  the  church.  The  superintendent  was  made  a  church 
officer,  to  be  elected  at  the  annual  meeting,  and  to  make  an 
annual  report  to  the  church.  It  was  resolved  that,  so  far  as 
practicable,  it  should  be  the  rule  that  at  least  one  of  the  dea- 
cons should  have  some  connection  with  the  school  either  as 
officer,  teacher,  or  visitor;  that  a  committee  made  up  of  three 
members  of  the  church  committee,  two  Sunday-school  teach- 
ers and  the  pastor,  should  have  charge  of  looking  up  teachers, 
who  as  a  rule  were  to  be  members  of  the  Tabernacle  Church. 

Dr.  Ranney,  who  was  long  connected  with  the  school,  did 
much  for  its  spiritual  growth.  About  1869,  and  later,  there 
was  not  only  a  teachers'  prayer-meeting  after  the  session,  but 
one  for  boys  led  by  Dr.  Ranney,  and  one  for  girls  under  Mrs. 
Bunnell.  Dr.  Henry  D.  Ranney  instituted,  in  1879,  the  Char- 
ity Fund  Committee  in  order  to  distribute  gifts  of  food,  cloth- 
ing and  money  among  the  poor,  and  to  carry  on  a  work 
which  the  school  had  begun  by  giving,  instead  of  receiving, 
Christmas  gifts.  This  became  an  important  feature  of  the 
Sunday-school.  Regular  contributions  of  the  school,  in  1879, 
were  distributed  by  its  missionary  committee,  were  given  to 
twelve  different  objects,  and  amounted  to  about  $500.  The 
enrolment  in  1900,  including  the  Home  Department,  was  one 

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hundred  and  eighty-six,  and  the  contributions  amounted  to 
$246.08. 

departments   of   missions   and   charities. 

Aside  from  the  Sunday-school  and  benevolent  work  of  the 
women,  the  church  activities  for  a  long  period  were  con- 
ducted through  four  departments,  in  the  main  as  laid  out 
by  Dr.  Thompson.  From  1872  to  1885,  when  they  were  super- 
seded by  the  Board  of  Missions,  the  Department  of  Mis- 
sions was  in  charge  of  Mr.  Francis  A.  Palmer  (seven  years), 
of  Mr.  Charles  S.  Smith  (six  years)  ;  the  Department  of 
Visitation  of  Poor  and  Sick  was  directed  during  the  same 
period  by  Mr.  James  Talcott  (four  years),  Mr.  Joseph  S. 
Case  and  Dr.  E.  P.  Hoyt  (one  year  each),  and  Mr.  Charles 
Whittemore  (five  years)  ;  the  Department  of  Contributions, 
Messrs.  Charles  Abernethy  (one  year),  Cornelius  N.  Bliss 
(three  years),  W.  D.  Moore  (five  years),  Hamilton  S. 
Gordon  (two  years)  ;  and  the  Department  of  Education, 
Messrs.  E.  B.  Finch  (one  year),  Austin  Abbott  (two  years), 
C.  B.  Knevals  (two  years),  H.  F.  Hills  (five  years),  and  Lu- 
cien  C.  Warner  (two  years).  Several  thousand  dollars  was 
expended  yearly  through  these  departments,  and  from  $300  to 
$500  for  the  education  of  young  men  for  the  ministry. 

Many  mission  schools  were  established.  The  report  of  1842 
refers  to  "  four  other  flourishing  Sunday-schools."  Not  many 
years  later  there  is  record  of  "  Brother  Amzi  Camp,  city  mis- 
sionary in  the  Sixth  Ward,  with  Sunday-school  in  Centre 
Street."  Rev.  Mr.  Camp  came  into  the  church  in  1843.  In 
1852  a  revival  is  reported  in  the  mission  schools  and  station 
of  Amzi  Camp,  Centre  Street.  Later  Mr.  F.  Link  was  teacher 
there,  and  tract  distributer.  In  1862  a  collection  of  nearly 
$100  was  taken  up  to  aid  the  Mission  Church  in  Centre  Street, 
and  a  committee  appointed  to  give  permanent  aid.  Contribu- 
tions from  the  deacons'  fund  for  the  same  object  have  already 
been  noted. 

In  1855  the  mission  school  of  Brother  Holmes,  Munroe 
Street,  and  the  colored  school  of  Brother  Walker,  in  Thomas 

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Street,  are  referred  to.  It  is  recorded  that  "Mr.  Wetmore 
had  charge  of  the  Bethel  Mission  Sunday-school  of  the 
Mariner  Church  in  Roosevelt  Street,  assisted  by  Augustus 
Gaylord  and  Samuel  Holmes." 

In  i860  a  Sabbath  and  industrial  school  was  established  at 
Fifty-fourth  Street  by  members  of  the  Pitts  Bible  Class.  In 
1861  a  mission  and  industrial  school  is  reported  on  Forty- 
seventh  Street,  and  in  1866  the  mission  school  in  charge  of 
Mr.  T.  S.  Berry,  in  the  hall  on  Sixth  Avenue  and  Thirty- 
ninth  Street,  is  discussed.  Arrangements  were  soon  made  for 
securing  a  chapel  on  Forty-eighth  Street  between  Eighth  and 
Ninth  Avenues,  and  a  Congregational  church  was  organized 
under  the  care  of  Rev.  Mr.  Baker.  The  school  was  removed 
from  Thirty-ninth  Street  to  this  chapel,  still  in  Brother  T.  S. 
Berry's  care,  with  forty  teachers,  three  hundred  and  fourteen 
scholars,  thirty  or  forty  volunteer  visitors,  and  a  Bible  reader 
working  in  the  vicinity  of  the  chapel.  An  industrial  school 
was  established  by  ladies  of  the  Tabernacle  in  1867.  In  1868 
the  Forty-eighth  Street  work  was  discontinued  because  "  satis- 
factory arrangements  "  could  not  be  made.  The  chief  mission 
of  the  church,  however,  has  been  Bethany,  which  will  be 
considered  later. 

YOUNG    MEN'S    ASSOCIATION. 

The  Christian  activity  of  the  young  men  of  the  Tabernacle 
was  from  its  first  organization  largely  expended  upon  mission 
enterprises.  A  Young  Men's  Association  was  organized  dur- 
ing Dr.  Thompson's  pastorate,  and  it  was  its  committee  that 
established  the  Bethany  Mission.  The  young  people's  prayer- 
meeting  was  also  dependent  upon  it  for  support.  As  early 
as  1872  this  meeting  was  held  Sunday  evenings  before  ser- 
vice. In  1875  the  prayer-meeting  was  held  on  Monday  even- 
ings, and  in  the  following  year  changed  to  Tuesday.  In 
1872  the  Young  Men's  Association  lapsed  and  the  Literary 
Union  was  substituted  for  it.  This  society  met  on  the  first 
and  third  Saturdays  of  the  month  at  eight  in  the  evening.  In 
1876  it  voted  to  admit  young  women  to  membership,  but  at 

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the  end  of  the  year  relinquished  the  experiment.  The  Literary 
Union  and  the  prayer-meeting  for  young  people  seem  both  to 
have  been  given  up  some  time  in  1878  or  1879. 

In  1882  a  committee  of  young  men  attempted  to  re-estab- 
lish the  young  people's  prayer-meeting,  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing as  before,  but  unsuccessfully.  In  1886  a  young  men's 
prayer-meeting  was  held  after  the  Sunday  evening  service, 
and  in  1887  it  became  again  the  "  Young  People's  "  meeting 
and  continued  until  1889. 

In  1888  the  Young  Men's  Association  was  revived.  It  not 
only  conducted  the  Sunday  evening  after-meeting,  but  it 
opened  a  reading-room  with  a  reference  library  and  the  stand- 
ard periodicals.  It  held  meetings  before  which  addresses  were 
given  about  once  a  month  in  the  winter,  and  in  1888  there 
were  one  hundred  and  ten  names  on  its  roll.  Its  rooms  were 
open  every  evening  from  seven  to  ten,  and  the  yearly  cost  of 
carrying  on  its  work  was  about  $550.  The  average  attendance 
at  its  reading-room  increased  until,  in  1891,  the  names  of 
three  hundred  and  fifty  different  visitors  were  noted.  Its 
lectures  were  well  attended,  as  was  also  its  Sunday  morning 
Bible  class  conducted  by  Professor  A.  D.  F.  Hamlin.  In  1892 
regular  monthly  meetings  were  held  for  business  and  sociabil- 
ity. The  following  year,  in  a  time  of  great  industrial  depres- 
sion, it  did  what  it  could  to  help  young  men  who  were  out  of 
employment,  and  secured  permanent  positions  for  twelve. 
Among  those  connected  with  it  as  presidents  or  who  served  offi- 
cially more  than  one  year  were  Messrs.  Rufus  Adams,  Will- 
iam G.  Bates,  Charles  E.  Bruce,  Alfred  D.  F.  Hamlin,  Albert 
A.  Johnson,  Jr.,  Martin  L.  Lee,  Charles  F.  Richards,  Hubert 

E.  Rogers,  and  Amos  H.  Stephens.  Its  report  appears  last 
in  the  year-book  of  1894. 

THE     MEN'S     ASSOCIATION^ 

is  reported  in  1896  as  being  the  result  of  the  efforts  of  Rev. 

F.  B.  Richards,  its  president.  It  appointed  various  commit- 
tees: on  visitation,  morning  service,  evening  service,  prayer- 
meeting,    Sunday-school,    missionary    and    social    work,    and 

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Bethany.  In  1898  Mr.  Irving  C.  Gaylord  succeeded  Mr.  Rich- 
ards as  president.  In  1899  the  association  was  reorganized 
with  a  new  constitution  as 

THE    MEN'S     LEAGUE. 

This  society  holds  monthly  meetings,  promotes  the  work  of 
the  church,  and  cultivates  friendliness,  sociability,  and  Christian 
intelligence  among  its  constituency.  Its  president  in  1900  was 
Dr.  Frank  B.  Carpenter. 

BETHANY    SUNDAY-SCHOOL    AND     CHURCH. 

The  Bethany  work  began  in  the  autumn  of  1868.  A  Sun- 
day-school, on  the  corner  of  Thirty-fourth  Street  and  Eighth 
Avenue  in  the  care  of  the  American  Sunday-school  Union, 
was  about  to  be  closed.  A  good  friend  of  the  school  inter- 
ested Mr.  Charles  L.  Hall,  then  a  member  of  the  Young  Men's 
Association  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle,  in  keeping  the 
school  alive.  He  brought  the  matter  before  the  association, 
which  appointed  him  with  two  other  young  men,  Robert  W. 
Haskins  and  Hamilton  S.  Gordon,  a  committee  to  visit  the 
school.  Mr.  Hall,  now  a  missionary  of  the  American  Mission- 
ary Association  at  Fort  Berthold,  N.  Dak.,  and  Mr.  Gordon 
were  college  classmates,  and  both  Mr.  Hall  and  Mr.  Haskins 
were  then  studying  for  the  ministry.  All  were  members  of  the 
Tabernacle  Church.  Thus  there  were  ties  that  bound  the  three 
closely  together,  but  it  was  Mr.  Hall's  enthusiastic  tempera- 
ment that  urged  them  forward  and  made  the  Bethany  Sunday- 
school  a  possibility. 

The  first  session  of  this  school,  under  the  charge  of  the 
Young  Men's  Association,  was  held  in  November,  with  four 
other  young  men  assisting.  Its  officers  were  Robert  W.  Has- 
kins, superintendent;  Charles  L.  Hall,  assistant  superin- 
tendent; Hamilton  S.  Gordon,  secretary;  Charles  L.  Hall, 
treasurer.  The  growth  of  the  school  was  small  until  Mr.  Has- 
kins found  a  suitable  hall  on  the  corner  of  Thirty-sixth  Street 
and  Ninth  Avenue,  and  two  members  of  the  Tabernacle  Church, 

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Messrs.  Charles  Stewart  Smith  and  Caleb  B.  Knevals,  who 
were  ready  to  guarantee  the  rent,  and  signed  a  lease  for 
three  months.  The  school  moved  to  this  hall  in  November, 
1869,  when  scholars  crowded  in  so  rapidly  that  the  average 
attendance  in  1870  was  three  hundred  and  eleven.  The  Taber- 
nacle Church  appropriated  $2,300  for  the  work  in  1870,  and 
$4,000  was  raised  for  it  the  next  year. 

Soon  after  moving  into  the  hall  an  evening  preaching  service 
was  established  and  the  two  theological  students,  with  still 
another,  Robert  Loring,  took  turns  in  conducting  it.  The 
hall  was  light  and  airy,  in  the  midst  of  a  populous  neighbor- 
hood ;  the  officers  of  the  school  devoted  much  time  to  it,  they 
consulted  together  when  the  session  had  closed  on  Sunday 
afternoons,  took  their  tea  together  in  the  building,  and  re- 
mained for  the  evening  service,  besides  devoting  to  the  work 
a  good  share  of  their  evenings  through  the  week.  A  strong 
corps  of  faithful  teachers,  men  ang!  women,  joined  them  and  all 
worked  harmoniously  together.  The  average  attendance  of 
the  school  for  the  first  ten  years  in  its  new  quarters  ranged 
from  352  to  669.  It  reached  its  highest  number  in  1894,  namely 
916. 

On  first  occupying  the  hall  a  rough  element  forced  its  way 
in,  and  some  attempts  were  made  to  disturb  the  gatherings 
assembled  for  recreation,  school,  or  worship;  but  the  young 
men  who  had  matters  in  charge  were  muscular  Christians  and 
soon  put  a  stop  to  lawlessness,  although  one  of  the  student 
preachers  was  once  stabbed  with  a  pocket-knife  by  a  reckless 
youth,  while  enforcing  order. 

The  first  mission  pastor  was  Rev.  Rufus  Underwood,  ap- 
pointed in  1872.  Mr.  Frederick  Link,  who  had  been  con- 
verted in  London  under  Dr.  Finney's  preaching  and  had  been 
a  member  of  the  Tabernacle  Church  for  seventeen  years,  was 
made  superintendent  the  same  year.  By  that  time  the  Beth- 
any work  was  under  the  Departments  of  Missions  and  Chari- 
ties, and  the  five  managers  of  the  departments,  together  with 
the  school  superintendent  and  church  treasurer,  constituted  a 
board  for  the  management  of  the  mission.     The  expenses  of 

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the  work  for  1873  were  estimated  at  over  $6,000.  Two  visi- 
tors and  a  Bible  reader  were  employed.  A  Thursday  evening 
prayer-meeting  was  well  attended,  a  young  people's  Bible  class 
and  prayer-meeting  held  on  Monday  evenings;  a  Bethany 
Christian  Association  organized,  whose  officers  were  Messrs. 
H.  W.  Carey,  C.  W.  Miner,  and  S.  A.  Bacon. 

Converts  of  the  Bethany  Mission  united  with  the  Taber- 
nacle Church;  but  by  1872  its  Bethany  members  were  de- 
sirous of  having  the  communion  service  administered  in  their 
own  place  of  worship ;  so,  in  that  year,  two  seasons  of  com- 
munion were  observed  at  Bethany. 

Rev.  William  Plested  became  the  pastor  May  1,  1874,  at 
which  time  there  was  an  attendance  of  from  fifty  to  sixty 
at  morning  service  and  from  sixty  to  ninety  in  the  evening. 
There  were  special  evening  meetings  held  by  the  pastor  for 
some  months  during  the  next  year,  and  thirty-two  were  ad- 
mitted to  church  membership;  and  in  1876  tv/enty-four  came 
into  the  Tabernacle  Church  from  Bethany.  On  February  28, 
1873,  a  plan  was  at  last  adopted  for  the  proposed  organiza- 
tion of  Bethany  Church,  and  when  it  was  constituted,  April 
13th,  ninety  members  from  the  Tabernacle  formed  the  new 
church.  Mr.  Robert  L.  Hall  was  elected  deacon;  Mr.  H.  S. 
Gordon,  clerk;  Mr.  Augustus  C.  Ohle,  treasurer;  Dr.  Lu- 
cien  C.  Warner  and  Mr.  Frederick  Link,  members  of  the 
church  committee.  Mr.  Willard  Scott  became  pastor,  April, 
1878,  and  Rev.  C.  H.  Burr,  February  1,  1880.  Mr.  Burr  also 
took  charge  of  the  Sunday-school,  which  was  under  the  super- 
intendence of  Dr.  E.  P.  Hoyt  when  he  came.  After  the  sub- 
scription of  $30,000,  taken  on  Dr.  Taylor's  tenth  anniversary, 
March  12,  1882,  work  was  begun  on  Bethany's  house  of 
worship  on  Tenth  Avenue  between  Thirty-fifth  and  Thirty- 
sixth  Streets.  The  Bethany  Sunday-school  had  been  saving 
toward  this  object  and  contributed  $2,549.94.  The  whole  cost 
was  about  $60,000.  This  church  was  dedicated  March  II, 
1883.  In  1886  the  Departments  of  Missions  and  Charities 
being  done  away  with  by  the  Tabernacle  Church,  the  Bethany 
Church  and   Sunday-school  and  other  work  connected  with 

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Bethany  were  put  in  charge  of  a  committee  of  three,  known 
as  the  Board  of  Missions.  Messrs.  J.  Howard  Sweetser, 
Charles  L.  Mead,  and  Hamilton  S.  Gordon  constituted  the 
first  Board  of  Missions,  and,  with  the  exception  of  Mr.  Ed- 
ward L.  Browning,  no  one  else  served  on  the  committee  until 
1895,  when  the  Bethany  Board  of  five  was  substituted  for  the 
committee,  with  one  member  elected  by  Bethany  Church.  Mr. 
Gordon  has  served  on  this  board  to  the  present,  and  so  has 
kept  up  an  unbroken  official  connection  with  the  Bethany  work 
since  its  beginning. 

During  the  eight  years  of  Mr.  Burr's  pastorate  the  church 
membership  more  than  doubled.  He  was  followed  by  Rev. 
S.  H.  Bray  in  1888,  Rev.  F.  B.  Richards,  June,  1894,  with 
whom  was  associated  Rev.  N.  Miller  Pratt,  1896  and  1897. 
Mr.  Pratt  was  sole  pastor  in  1898,  and  resigned  May,  1901. 
When  Rev.  C.  H.  Burr  left,  in  1888,  Mr.  Silas  H.  Paine  be- 
came superintendent  of  the  school  and  held  the  position  until 
1897,  when  Rev.  Mr.  Richards  took  it  in  charge.  Since  1898 
the  school  has  been  in  the  joint  care  of  Rev.  N.  Miller  Pratt 
and  Messrs.  Harris  H.  Hayden  and  Thomas  A.  Fair. 

The  various  plans  that  have  been  put  in  operation  to  help 
Bethany  have  been  legion.  As  early  as  1872  there  were  the 
devotional,  entertainment,  and  charity  committees,  and  much 
work  has  been  accomplished  along  these  lines;  the  latter, 
known  later  as  the  Department  of  Charities  and  Visitation, 
was  constantly  aided  by  the  kindly  doctors  of  the  Tab- 
ernacle, and  reported  yearly  to  the  manager  who  had  the 
"  Visitation  of  Poor  and  Sick "  department.  The  cemetery 
association,  "  cottage  "  prayer-meetings,  secular  library  opened 
in  1880,  through  the  efforts  of  Dr.  E.  P.  Hoyt;  boys'  reading- 
room,  Christian  Endeavor  Society,  singing  classes,  Girls' 
Club,  Boys'  Brigade,  organized  in  1894  and  drilled  by  Colonel 
William  G.  Bates ;  kitchen  garden ;  fresh-air  benefactions,  in- 
cluding Oneita  Cottage  provided  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paine; 
Young  Men's  Institute,  Lafayette  Club,  Young  Women's  Club, 
are  but  a  portion  of  these. 

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of  the  Tabernacle,  demand  special  notice;  the  Bethany  Sew- 
ing School,  the  Helping  Hand,  and  the  Kindergarten. 

THE    BETHANY    SEWING    SCHOOL, 

or  Industrial  School,  as  it  was  first  called,  was  organized 
about  1869  by  Mrs.  A.  K.  Thompson  and  Mrs.  Charles  Whit- 
temore,  and  held  on  Saturday  afternoons.  In  the  winter  of 
1870-71,  Mrs.  Whittemore,  Mrs.  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  and 
Miss  Mary  S.  Janes  were  appointed  a  committee  to  take 
charge  of  the  school.  As  late  as  1875  the  annual  report  of 
the  school  was  signed  by  the  three  ladies.  The  following 
year  it  was  called  the  Bethany  Sewing  School  and  its  officers 
were  Miss  Mary  S.  Janes,  superintendent;  Mrs.  Charles 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  Wright  Gillies,  assistant  superintendents ; 
Miss  E.  J.  Kimball,  secretary.  In  1879  Mrs.  Bliss  was  treas- 
urer. At  that  date  the  average  attendance  of  scholars  was 
over  two  hundred  and  of  teachers  was  thirty-one.  There  were 
more  than  thirty  girls  only  five  or  six  years  old,  while  the  old- 
est was  seventeen.  The  school  was  held  Saturday  mornings 
in  the  Northwestern  Hall,  which  was  light,  cheerful,  and  com- 
modious. The  girls  were  taught  sewing  upon  garments  which 
were  carefully  inspected,  and  those  whose  work  was  com- 
mendable were  placed  upon  a  Roll  of  Honor,  to  receive  some 
special  reward  at  the  close  of  the  term.  A  dressmaking  class 
was  added  later.  Housekeeping  lessons  were  recited  in  con- 
cert from  a  little  manual,  a  sort  of  domestic  catechism.  Bible 
verses  were  learned  by  heart  from  cards  containing  topical 
selections  for  the  year.  These  were  given  the  pupils  for  home 
study.  The  recitation  of  these  verses  was  an  important 
feature  of  the  yearly  closing  exercises  of  the  school.  Dr. 
Taylor  took  much  interest  in  these  occasions.  Once  when 
detained  by  a  wedding  he  sent  word,  to  the  delight  of  the  chil- 
dren, that  they  must  not  recite  their  Bible  verses  until  he  came. 
During  the  sewing  hour  skilled  musicians  from  the  Taber- 
nacle sometimes  cheered  by  their  musical  gifts .  the  workers 
who  used  to  speak  of  their  "  matinees  at  Bethany."  Occa- 
sional evening  gatherings  were  held  for  the  girls  and  their 

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mothers.  Mrs.  Van  Nest's  little  "Helping  Hand"  was  re- 
ported in  1881 ;  and  a  coal  fund  was  established  later  through 
which,  as  the  records  show,  one  mother  with  a  large  family 
purchased  in  the  course  of  years  fifty-eight  tons  of  coal. 

The  high  grade  of  the  teachers  and  officers,  their  faithful 
attendance  and  the  generous  gifts  they  secured  for  the  school, 
were  quite  remarkable.  Many  of  them  were  women  of  ex- 
perience, mothers  of  families.  Miss  Janes  for  twenty-two 
years,  until  1893,  superintended  the  school.  One  teacher  had 
a  class  for  nineteen  years,  another  was  present  every  Satur- 
day of  the  session  for  twenty-one  years.  In  1884,  when  the 
number  of  teachers  enrolled  was  fifty,  the  average  attendance 
was  forty-one;  and  with  three  hundred  and  forty-one  pupils 
the  average  attendance  was  two  hundred  and  ninety-eight. 
Many  of  the  officers  gave  up  their  whole  day,  remaining 
through  the  afternoon  to  advise  with  one  another,  and  to  at- 
tend to  details  of  the  work.  Miss  Janes's  report  of  the  earlier 
years  includes  the  names  of  officers  of  the  society,  "  ideal  asso- 
ciates in  benevolent  work,"  and  she  adds : 

"  It  seems  like  the  chiming  of  bells  to  sound  some  of  the  names : 
Miss  Tietjen,  Mrs.  Lucy  Todd  Bigelow,  Mrs.  William  Taylor  (Eleventh 
Street),  Miss  Macfarlane,  Miss  Wright,  Mrs.  Cilley,  Mrs.  Van  Nest, 
Mrs.  Houghton,  Miss  Paul.  These  have  gone  where  they  may  have 
heard  such  words  as  these :  '  I  know  thy  works,  thy  labor  and  thy 
patience.' " 

The  scholars  were  encouraged  to  assist  others.  They  made 
some  garments  for  those  needier  than  themselves,  and  helped 
to  educate  the  Indian  ward  of  the  school  who  was  a  pupil 
at  Fort  Berthold.  A  daintily  dressed  wax  doll,  known  as 
"  Bethany  Bertha,"  was  sent  as  visitor  to  the  sick  children  in 
need  of  cheer,  and  was  carefully  tended  and  returned. 

In  the  winter  of  1892-93  modern  methods  of  teaching 
sewing  were  introduced  with  Mrs.  Harlan  Page  Smith  and 
Miss  Eliza  Inslee  as  superintendents.  In  1895,  at  the  request 
of  the  Tabernacle  Church,  the  school  with  the  Helping  Hand 
and  Kindergarten  was  put  in  care  of  the  Society  for  Women's 

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Work  which  now  carries  on  the  department.  Miss  Inslee  con- 
tinued to  superintend  the  school  until  1899-1900,  when  Mrs.  C. 
Smith  and  Mrs.  I.  A.  McKinstry  were  appointed  to  direct  it. 

Among  the  former  pupils  of  the  school  may  be  counted 
graduates  of  the  Normal  College,  now  teaching ;  dressmakers ; 
a  music  teacher;  a  trained  nurse  and  many  mothers  of  fami- 
lies who  testify  that  the  benefits  they  received  from  the  Bethany 
Sewing  School  were  incalculable. 

BETHANY    HELPING    HAND. 

The  work  of  the  Helping  Hand  was  begun  in  1882  under 
the  guidance  of  Mrs.  L.  M.  Bates,  first  directress ;  Mrs.  Clark 
Bell,  second  directress;  Mrs.  Mary  N.  Wright,  secretary; 
Mrs.  Joel  E.  Fisher,  treasurer.  Weekly  meetings  were  held 
the  first  year  at  the  Tabernacle.  The  society  removed  to  Beth- 
any Church  in  1883.  Funds  were  raised  for  the  care  of  fifty 
women,  and  the  next  year  sixty  were  regularly  cared  for.  The 
society  employs  a  missionary  visitor  who  acquaints  herself 
with  the  needs  of  families  in  the  Bethany  district,  and 
furnishes  the  officers  with  a  list  of  sixty  or  eighty  deserving 
women  who  need  aid  and  encouragement.  Postal  cards  are 
sent  inviting  them  to  become  members  of  the  society.  They 
meet  one  afternoon  in  the  week,  work  is  given  out  and  the 
women  are  paid  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  an  hour  for  their 
work,  the  pay  being  in  garments  made.  Instruction  is  given, 
while  work  is  going  on,  in  practical  matters  that  concern  their 
home  life,  and  religious  instruction  is  not  omitted.  Many  of 
the  women  have  become  attendants  upon  the  Bethany  services, 
some  members  of  the  church.  Care  of  the  sick  has  been  sup- 
plied, also,  at  times,  Christmas  dinners  and  clothing.  During 
Mr.  Burr's  pastorate  he  came  to  the  meetings  and  gave  religious 
teaching.  In  1889  Mrs.  Bates  was  obliged  to  relinquish  the 
work,  and  the  following  year  it  was  put  in  care  of  Mrs. 
Hamilton  S.  Gordon.  It  then  received  support  through 
the  Board  of  Missions.  A  Penny  Provident  Fund  was  estab- 
lished in  1891,  which  had  one  hundred  and  twenty  depositors 
that  year.     In  1896  the  care  of  Bethany  Helping  Hand  was 

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transferred  to  the  Society  for  Women's  Work  of  the  Tabernacle 
Church,  under  whose  management  it  has  since  remained. 

At  a  session  of  the  Helping  Hand,  in  1897,  the  Bethany 
Foreign  Missionary  Auxiliary  of  the  Woman's  Board  was  or- 
ganized, Mrs.  S.  Bourne,  president,  and  Miss  Mary  S.  Janes, 
secretary  and  treasurer;  a  Cradle  Roll  was  also  formed.  In 
1898  Mrs.  Cephas  Brainerd,  Jr.,  was  put  in  charge,  and  cook- 
ing classes  were  held  in  the  homes  of  members.  In  1900  Mrs. 
Brainerd  was  directress ;  Mrs.  J.  K.  Farwell,  buyer  and  cutter ; 
Miss  S.  M.  Miles,  secretary ;   Miss  S.  M.  Warren,  treasurer. 

BETHANY     KINDERGARTEN. 

The  Bethany  Kindergarten  sprang  out  of  Mr.  Richards's 
strongly  expressed  desire  for  it  in  February,  1895,  Dr.  Stim- 
son's  immediate  earnest  appeal  for  it,  and  the  generous  re- 
sponse of  Tabernacle  givers.  Enough  money  was  contributed 
to  carry  on  the  school  during  a  term.  A  committee,  of  which 
Mrs.  F.  L.  Underwood  was  chairman,  was  formed  to  organize 
the  work  and  secure  a  teacher.  Miss  Cowles,  a  successful 
teacher  and  worker  in  charities,  was  engaged  as  principal  with 
an  assistant.  The  Kindergarten  was  opened,  March  iSth, 
with  a  limited  enrolment  of  fifty  children  and  an  average  of 
thirty-five  after  the  first  month.  During  that  and  the  follow- 
ing year  this  school  was  largely  indebted  to  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Stimson's  efforts  for  the  encouragement  and  support  it  re- 
ceived. The  children  were  taxed  one  penny  a  day,  from  which 
fund  the  small  monthly  expenses  were  met,  the  balance  going 
to  the  general  fund. 

In  all,  there  have  been  under  Miss  Cowles's  care  more  than 
three  hundred  and  seventy-five  children.  At  first  they  were 
received  at  four  years  of  age  and  remained  until  seven,  but 
latterly  they  have  been  received  at  three.  Miss  Cowles's  work 
has  been  done  through  the  Kindergarten,  through  home  visits, 
and  the  Mothers'  Club,  organized  January,  1898.  She  has 
been  able  to  place  several  children  in  hospitals  where  they  could 
receive   special   treatment.      The   Mothers'    Club   reported   in 

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1899   a  membership  of  eighty,  with  an  average  attendance  of 
fifty  at  its  six  monthly  meetings. 

For  four  years  the  Kindergarten  was  poorly  housed  at 
Bethany  Chapel.  In  1898  Miss  Grace  H.  Dodge  proposed 
that  Bethany  children  should  have  the  privilege  of  the 
Irene  Club  Home,  then  recently  transferred  to  Thirty-fourth 
Street;  but  the  Kindergarten  Committee  did  not  feel  justified 
in  increasing  the  expense  of  the  school  $270,  for  a  year's  rent. 
The  following  year  the  Society  for  Women's  Work,  to  whose 
care  the  Kindergarten  had  been  entrusted  in  1896,  voted  to 
make  a  special  effort  to  raise  the  money,  and  if  possible  to 
accept  the  offer.  A  contribution,  from  a  generous  friend  of 
the  work,  of  the  full  amount  of  the  rent  for  the  balance  of 
the  year,  together  with  the  encouraging  help  of  Miss  Dodge, 
made  the  change  possible.  Miss  Cowles's  salary  had  been  in- 
creased, and  that  extra  amount,  with  the  expense  of  rent, 
brought  up  the  yearly  cost  of  the  school  from  $810  to  $1,125, 
but  of  this  amount  $200  was  assumed  by  Miss  Dodge.  Be- 
sides substantial  assistance  from  the  Society  for  Women's 
Work,  the  Kindergarten  has  received  frequent  encouragement 
and  gifts  from  individual  members  of  the  church,  from  the  Tab- 
ernacle Bible  School,  and  the  Bethany  Sewing  School.  The 
Bethany  Kindergarten  Committee  in  1900  consisted  of  Mrs. 
Joseph  D.  Bryant,  chairman ;  Mrs.  Thomas  A.  Fair,  secretary ; 
Mrs.  George  W.  Kemp,  treasurer. 

CHINESE    BIBLE    SCHOOL. 

The  Chinese  Bible  School  was  organized  February  1,  1885, 
by  Sidney  L.  Gulick,  with  one  pupil.  The  second  Sunday 
there  were  twenty-seven.  From  1887  to  1890,  when  Mr.  Guy 
Maine  was  missionary  and  interpreter,  the  school  numbered 
fifty  pupils  with  twenty-three  teachers.  When  Mr.  Maine  left, 
many  of  the  pupils  followed  him,  and  for  some  years  after- 
ward the  average  attendance  was  only  thirteen.  Since  1895, 
when  Mr.  Pang  became  missionary  and  interpreter,  the  school 
has  grown  steadily  in  numbers  and  strength.  In  1900  the 
average  attendance  was  thirty-seven  pupils  and  sixteen  teach- 

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ers.  Progress  has  been  made  in  grading  so  that  now  three 
or  four  study  together.  Mr.  Gulick  was  the  first  superin- 
tendent of  the  school.  Messrs.  Henry  W.  Sackett  and  Rufus 
Adams  were  on  the  committee  of  three  that  had  the  school 
in  charge,  with  Mr.  Gulick.  In  1889  Deacon  Henry  W.  Hub- 
bard succeeded  Mr.  Adams.  He  still  remains  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  committee.  Mr.  Reuben  B.  Poole,  Dr.  William  L. 
Stowell,  and  Dr.  Charles  E.  Bruce  have  labored  for  the 
school,  the  last  having  been  for  some  years  its  superintendent. 
From  1887  till  1895  a  secular  school  was  held  on  Monday. 
There  are  now  fourteen  Chinese  names  on  the  Tabernacle  roll 
of  membership,  eight  of  whom  have  united  with  the  church 
since  Mr.  Pang  came  to  the  school.  A  prayer-meeting  is  held 
for  half  an  hour  before  school  opens,  conducted  by  the  Chris- 
tian Chinese.  The  school  contributes  regularly  to  various 
missionary  causes,  especially  to  work  in  China  and  California. 
The  committee  at  present  is  Dr.  Edward  W.  Peet,  superin- 
tendent;  Henry  W.  Hubbard,  Thomas  S.  Hope  Simpson. 

SOCIETY    FOR     WOMEN'S     WORK. 

It  was  in  1893  that  the  two  societies  which  held  the  women 
of  the  Tabernacle  to  home  and  foreign  missionary  work  were 
consolidated.  When  the  first  annual  report  was  given,  Mrs. 
Henry  A.  Stimson  was  president;  Mrs.  Lucien  C.  Warner, 
vice-president;  Miss  Underwood,  clerk;  Mrs.  Robert  A. 
Sands,  treasurer.  It  was  divided  into  four  general  depart- 
ments: Home  Missions,  Foreign  Missions,  Local  Charities, 
Church  Aid.  Seven  business  meetings  are  held  yearly ;  eighteen 
meetings  are  devoted  to  institutional,  home,  and  foreign  work. 
Since  1896  Mrs.  Hamilton  S.  Gordon  has  presided  over  the 
society. 

THE    HOME    MISSIONARY    DEPARTMENT 

subdivides  its  work  among  five  committees  who  have  care,  re- 
spectively, of  purchasing  material  and  goods,  cutting  work, 
distributing  it,  packing  and  putting  valuation  upon  trunks  (for 

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missionaries),  and  receiving  donations  other  than  money.  The 
chairman  of  the  department,  by  the  last  year-book,  was  Mrs. 
Lefferts  Strebeigh.  This,  as  also  the  foreign  missionary  de- 
partment, has  its  own  secretary  and  treasurer. 

No  definite  reports  of  the  early  home  missionary  efforts 
of  the  women  of  this  church  have  been  found.  The  "  Sunday- 
school  Missionary  Association  "  was  doubtless  a  home  mis- 
sionary organization,  as  was  the  woman's  society  that  sup- 
ported missionaries  in  "  The  Western  Country,"  in  1845. 
"  The  ladies  have  gone  forward  with  the  various  societies  or- 
ganized by  them,"  says  the  report  of  1846.  One  of  these  must 
have  been  a  home  missionary  society,  but  no  records  have 
come  to  light.  The  society  that  now  reports  as  the  "  Home 
Missionary  Department "  was  formed  in  the  autumn  of  1869. 
The  women  of  the  church  had  met  together  during  the  war 
to  work  in  aid  of  the  Sanitary  Commission  and  other  loyal 
societies ;  afterward,  there  were  many  city  benevolences  that 
absorbed  their  attention  until  Dr.  Thompson  expressed  a  wish 
to  his  Bible  class  that  ladies  of  the  Tabernacle  should  unite 
in  work  for  some  definite  common  object.  Mrs.  Thompson 
wrote  notes  to  some,  not  in  the  Bible  class,  and  with  the  assist- 
ance of  the  sisters,  Mrs.  Leavitt  and  Mrs.  Hopkins,  the  Home 
Missionary  Society  was  started  with  about  fifteen  members. 
Mrs.  Thompson  was  made  first  directress  of  the  society; 
Mrs.  Leavitt,  secretary;  Mrs.  L.  M.  Bates,  treasurer.  Money 
was  raised  by  voluntary  contributions,  and  quite  a  sum  was  col- 
lected outside  the  church.  They  sent  trunks  of  clothing  to 
home  missionaries,  as  has  been  the  custom  ever  since.  The 
first  printed  report  of  the  society  was  in  its  third  year  for 
the  season  of  1871-72.  Dr.  Taylor,  like  Dr.  Thompson,  in- 
terested himself  personally  in  the  society,  and,  as  he  had  done, 
came  to  the  meetings  Tuesday  morning,  and  closed  them  with 
Bible  reading,  a  word  of  application  and  prayer.  In  the  spring 
the  season's  work  closed  with  a  "  tea-party,"  a  social  gathering 
where  cakes  and  flowers  were  sold,  and  this  money,  with  the 
entrance  fees,  was  used  for  starting  work  the  following  year. 

The  men  of  the  church  gave  much  aid.     Mr.  L.  M.  Bates 

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gave  all  the  trunks  in  which  clothing  was  sent  and  attended 
to  their  shipment ;  Mr.  J.  H.  Sweetser  and  Mr.  W.  D.  Harper 
contributed  new  shawls ;  Mr.  R.  A.  Dorman,  chests  of  tea ; 
one,  a  sewing-machine,  others,  whole  pieces  of  cotton  cloth,  and 
flannel ;  Mr.  Armstrong,  copies  of  Dr.  Thompson's  "  Home 
Worship." 

Gifts  of  money  were  received  from  the  Tabernacle  and  Beth- 
any Sunday-schools,  from  a  Bible  class,  from  the  Kinder  Sin- 
fonie  Society,  also  a  small  legacy;  and  Mr.  Matthew  C.  D. 
Borden  for  not  less  than  sixteen  years  has  collected  yearly  from 
benevolent  men  of  the  church,  for  the  purchase  of  pulpit  suits 
for  home  missionaries,  amounts  ranging  from  $250  to  $750. 

The  year  1887-88  showed  the  largest  membership,  includ- 
ing one  hundred  and  seven  ladies,  sixty  being  present  at  some 
of  the  meetings,  while  the  average  attendance  was  forty-four. 
Twenty  trunks  were  sent  out,  the  aggregate  value  of  which 
was  $4,429.13.  The  highest  valuation  ever  reached  was  in 
the  season  of  1890-91,  when  the  twenty  trunks  sent  were  val- 
ued at  $4,435.15.  For  the  twenty-eight  years  from  1873-1900, 
inclusive,  the  average  value  of  the  missionary  supplies  of  cloth- 
ing, bedding,  table-linen,  books,  toys,  and  money  sent  in 
trunks  each  year  was  a  little  more  than  $3,000. 

Other  special  gifts,  sent  through  the  society,  were  subscrip- 
tions to  newspapers,  communion  sets  sent  at  various  times, 
two  services  being  for  two  newly  organized  churches  from 
Messrs.  Washburn  and  Warner;  a  cabinet  organ  and  a  home- 
missionary  horse.  The  book-fund,  under  the  particular  super- 
vision of  Dr.  Taylor,  enclosed  in  each  trunk  a  collection  of 
twenty-two  volumes  of  his  selection,  to  which  he  always  added 
a  copy  of  his  "  Paul  the  Missionary."  When  the  society  was 
federated  it  became  an  auxiliary  of  the  Woman's  Home  Mis- 
sionary Union  of  New  York  State. 

"  Of  the  gracious  and  graceful  presidents  of  the  Society  and  its 
founders,  Mrs.  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Mrs.  Charles  Abernethy,  Mrs. 
John  H.  Washburn,  Mrs.  Matthew  C.  D.  Borden,  who  gave  to  it  much 
of  their  time  and  interest,  of  Mrs.  Levi  M.  Bates,  its  faithful  and  effi- 
cient treasurer  for  twenty  years,  of  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Houghton,  its  sec- 

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retary,  Mrs.  Thomas  W.  Whittemore,  Mrs.  Nathaniel  P.  Fisher,  Mrs. 
Lucius  E.  Chittenden,  Miss  Paul," 

and  of  their  faithful  co-workers,  the  historical  report  of  the 
secretary,  read  at  the  sixtieth  anniversary  of  the  church,  speaks 
with  grateful  recognition.  Together  they  make  a  company  of 
honorable  women  not  a  few. 

FOREIGN     MISSIONARY    DEPARTMENT. 

In  1873  three  young  girls,  members  of  Mrs.  Austin  Ab- 
bott's Sunday-school  class,  formed  themselves  into  a  society 
for  foreign  missionary  work.  This  little  band  was  the  nucleus 
of  the  Young  Ladies'  Foreign  Missionary  Society.  Gradually 
the  number  increased  to  ten,  and  they  then  agreed  to  work 
regularly  in  Mrs.  Abbott's  parlor,  to  draw  up  a  constitution, 
to  call  themselves  the  "  Mission  Band  of  Cheerful  Workers," 
and  to  undertake  the  support  of  some  foreign  missionary. 
Naturally  they  assumed  the  support  of  Miss  Carrie  E.  Bush, 
who  had  gone  out  as  missionary  to  Turkey  from  the  Broad- 
way Tabernacle  Church,  and  whose  father  was  an  attendant 
upon  its  services  and  district  secretary  of  the  American  Board. 

But  interest  was  not  confined  to  these  young  people. 
Substantial  help  was  given  by  their  elders  in  the  church,  who 
attended  the  sales  and  fairs  and  became  honorary  members. 
In  1886  subscriptions  were  asked  for,  and  the  elder  ladies 
gave  them  with  unfailing  regularity.  For  two  years  Mrs.  Ab- 
bott was  president  of  the  band ;  then,  until  1880,  Mrs.  Thomas 
W.  Whittemore  served,  the  meetings  being  held  in  the  par- 
lors of  these  ladies,  with  Miss  E.  R.  Fisher  as  Vice-President. 
At  the  meetings  the  young  people  followed  Miss  Bush's  foot- 
steps faithfully,  and  by  means  of  the  letters  she  wrote  them 
they  became  interested  in  all  her  work.  They  not  only  paid 
her  salary,  but  supplied  her  with  a  horse  and  many  personal 
comforts.  As  the  society  increased  to  over  thirty  and  then  to 
a  membership  limited  to  fifty,  it  moved  its  place  of  meeting 
to  the  church  parlors  and  chose  officers  from  its  own  mem- 
bership. 

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By  1886  the  Cheerful  Workers  became  known  as  the  Young 
Ladies'  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  and,  by  the  time  it  was 
made  a  component  part  of  the  Society  for  Women's  Work, 
more  than  $17,000  had  been  contributed  to  foreign  missions 
by  its  means.  At  that  date,  1893,  it  became  an  auxiliary  so- 
ciety of  the  New  York  Branch  of  the  Woman's  Board  of  Mis- 
sions. It  has  contributed  to  a  great  variety  of  objects,  to  Mr. 
Hume's  work  in  India,  to  the  home  for  missionary  children  in 
Auburndale,  Mass.,  to  medical  work  of  the  Woman's  Board, 
and  to  many  schools.  Contributions  have  averaged  $700  an- 
nually. Since  1895  Mrs.  Chas.  E.  Mitchell,  with  her  warm 
enthusiasm,  has  led  the  department,  has  laid  the  foundation 
of  a  missionary  library,  has  encouraged  more  generous  giving 
by  suggesting  objects  in  which  givers  can  take  a  personal  inter- 
est, alluring  the  members  to  more  devoted  service  and  leading 
the  way. 

LOCAL    CHARITIES    AND    INSTITUTIONS. 

This  department,  of  which  Mrs.  Cephas  Brainerd,  Jr.,  has 
been  chairman  for  several  years,  includes  the  Bethany  Sew- 
ing School,  Helping  Hand,  Kindergarten,  which  have  already 
been  reported,  and  the  Bethany  Kitchen  Garden,  also  the  In- 
stitutional Committee  by  means  of  which  the  work  of  a  num- 
ber of  valuable  city  institutions,  such  as  the  Young  Women's 
Christian  Association  and  Home  for  the  Friendless,  are  pre- 
sented to  the  society  by  accredited  workers  who  have  their 
several  interests  at  heart.  The  fourth  department  of  the  So- 
ciety for  Women's  Work,  is  known  as 

THE    DEPARTMENT    OF    CHURCH    AID. 

It  was,  when  the  last  year-book  was  issued,  under  the  care 
of  Mrs.  R.  A.  Dorman,  and  it  is  made  up  of  two  committees : 
Entertainment,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Mellick,  chairman ;  and  Hospital- 
ity, Mrs.  William  H.  Thomson.  Upon  the  efficient  work  of 
these  two  committees  the  social,  friendly  spirit  of  the  church 
largely  depends.  Afternoon  teas,  receptions,  dinners,  or 
luncheons  for  conferences,  are  the  responsibility  of  the  Enter- 

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tainment  Committee,  while  the  privilege  of  welcoming  strang- 
ers, caring  for  the  sick  or  sorrowing  in  a  friendly  way,  and 
visiting  them,  is  enjoyed  by  the  Hospitality  Committee. 

THE    YOUNG    PEOPLE'S    SOCIETY    OF    CHRISTIAN    ENDEAVOR 

was  formed  Sunday  evening,  October  I,  1893,  with  fifteen 
members.  Before  the  close  of  the  year  its  membership  had 
increased  to  forty,  with  an  average  attendance  of  forty-five. 
When  the  church  was  without  a  pastor  the  membership  de- 
creased, but  in  1899  it  reported  an  average  attendance  of  sixty- 
six.  January  1,  1901,  its  active  membership  was  thirty-five, 
and  its  contributions  $50.  Its  president  is  Mr.  J.  R.  Ellen- 
wood. 

THE    FLOWER    COMMITTEE. 

This  committee  of  ladies  was  also  first  appointed  in  1893. 
Its  duty  is  not  only  to  decorate  the  church  on  festivals  and 
special  occasions,  but  to  provide  each  Sunday  for  the  Lord's 
house  a  floral  offering  that  may  afterward  carry  the 
kindly  greetings  of  the  church  to  some  who  have  been  provi- 
dentially debarred  from  attending  its  services.  The  chairman 
of  the  committee  is  Miss  Anna  C.  Benedict. 

THE    YOUNG    WOMAN'S     CLUB 

is  one  of  the  youngest  enterprises  of  the  society,  organized 
by  Dr.  Jefferson,  in  December,  1899,  to  foster  a  spirit  of 
friendliness  and  sociability  among  young  women  of  the 
congregation.  It  has  held  ten  meetings  in  the  course  of  a 
year,  and  has  discussed  social  and  literary  topics.  Its  mem- 
bership in  December,  1900,  was  forty.  Its  two  presidents 
have  been  Mrs.  Franklin  H.  Warner  and  Miss  Anna  C.  Mel- 
lick. 

LADIES'    CHRISTIAN    UNION    PRAYER-MEETING. 

Imperfect  and  meagre  as  this  sketch  of  the  activities  of  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  must  of  necessity  be,  it  would 
be  incorrect  to  leave  unnoticed  the  prayer-meeting  under  the 

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direction  of  the  Ladies'  Christian  Union  that  has  been  held 
in  the  chapel  at  eleven  o'clock  each  Wednesday  forenoon  for 
nearly  forty  years.  This  meeting  was  founded  by  Mrs.  Mar- 
shall O.  Roberts,  a  warm  personal  friend  of  Dr.  Thompson,  as 
patriotic  as  himself,  through  whose  kindly  hand  President 
Lincoln  sent  to  Dr.  Thompson  as  a  token  of  regard  and  appre- 
ciation his  own  favorite  gold-headed  cane.  Mrs.  Roberts  was 
from  1870  until  her  death,  five  years  later,  a  member  of  the 
Tabernacle  Church. 

It  was  during  the  great  revival  of  1857,  while  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association  was  holding  daily  prayer-meet- 
ings, that  Mrs.  Caroline  D.  Roberts  and  her  friend,  the  late 
Mrs.  Charles  Abernethy,  felt  that  there  should  also  be  a  union 
meeting  for  Christian  women.  They  called  upon  many  pas- 
tors and  arranged  for  several  meetings  of  the  sort.  These 
were  held  in  the  Church  of  the  Puritans  on  Union  Square,  in 
the  old  New  York  University,  in  the  Home  for  the  Friendless, 
and  other  places.  From  that  circle  of  praying  women  came 
the  formation  of  the  Ladies'  Christian  Union  in  1858,  of 
which  Mrs.  Roberts  was  the  leading  spirit.  By  the  request 
of  Dr.  Thompson,  a  ladies'  prayer-meeting  was  started  by  Mrs. 
Roberts  in  the  parlors  of  the  church  very  soon  after  the  new 
Tabernacle  was  occupied.  It  was  at  first  a  small  meeting;  at 
times  not  half  a  dozen  were  present,  but  though  often 
discouraged  she  persevered  with  sweet  willingness.  Mean- 
time Mrs.  Deuel,  another  worker  in  the  Ladies'  Christian 
Union,  assisted  by  Mrs.  Roberts,  held  another  union  prayer- 
meeting  in  her  parlors  in  Bond  Street.  The  ladies  who  at- 
tended it  generally  belonged  to  the  same  association,  of  which 
Mrs.  Roberts  was  first  directress.  When  Mrs.  Deuel  married 
Governor  Wright,  of  Indiana,  who  was  appointed  United 
States  Minister  to  the  Court  of  Berlin,  her  house  was  closed, 
and  Mrs.  Roberts  invited  the  ladies  who  had  frequented  the 
meeting  there  to  unite  with  those  who  met  at  the  Broad- 
way Tabernacle.  Thus,  in  1864,  there  was  formed  what  has 
been  known  as  the  Tabernacle  Meeting  of  the  Ladies'  Chris- 
tian Union. 

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This  union  meeting  became  of  such  deep  and  wide-spread 
interest,  in  1866,  that  it  was  held  daily,  Sunday  excepted,  for 
three  months  following  the  Week  of  Prayer,  which  the  Union 
always  observed  by  daily  meetings.  The  attendance  over- 
flowed the  two  parlors  upstairs,  and  the  meetings  were  trans- 
ferred to  the  chapel,  which  was  often  filled  to  standing-room. 
In  religious  influence  Mrs.  Roberts  was  for  years  the  greatest 
power  among  women  in  New  York  City.  Dr.  Thompson 
wrote : 

"  For  myself — I  always  felt  that  the  pulpit  could  rest  on  this  prayer- 
meeting  as  a  background  of  moral  support." 

One  of  the  first  calls  for  a  large  public  meeting  of  prayer, 
issued  by  Mrs.  Roberts  and  her  associates,  was  to  mothers 
of  sons  who,  as  members  of  the  gallant  Seventh  Regiment, 
had  just  left  New  York  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war 
for  their  country's  defence.  The  mothers  came  in  crowds, 
and  the  mighty  meeting  was  led  by  Mrs.  Roberts.  One  of 
her  last  acts  was  to  form  a  "  Prayer  Band,"  which  had  as 
many  as  1,500  names  recorded.  The  nobly  sustained  Young 
Women's  Christian  Association  of  this  city  was  evolved  from 
the  Ladies'  Christian  Union,  organized  by  Mrs.  Roberts,  that 
has  sustained,  these  many  years,  the  Ladies'  Prayer-Meeting 
at  the  Tabernacle. 


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CHAPTER   X. 
THE   SIXTIETH   ANNIVERSARY.* 

The  celebration  of  the  Sixtieth  Anniversary  of  the  Broadway 
Tabernacle  did  not  mark  with  exactness  the  completion  of  sixty 
years.  The  church  was  organized  July  30,  1840.  But  what 
church  could  celebrate  an  anniversary  in  New  York  City  in 
July?  Times  have  altered,  and  the  habits  of  New  Yorkers 
have  undergone  such  radical  transformation  as  to  render  a 
midsummer  celebration  impossible.  The  church  was  or- 
ganized by  council  September  3d,  but  our  September  is  dif- 
ferent from  that  of  sixty  years  ago.  No  church  can  hold  a 
festival  when  its  members  are  scattered  over  half  a  continent, 
and  that  is  the  condition  of  the  Tabernacle  in  the  opening 
week  of  each  September.  It  was,  therefore,  decided  to  organize 
the  celebration  around  the  sixtieth  annual  meeting  of  the 
church. 

The  celebration  began  January  16th  and  closed  the  follow- 
ing Wednesday  evening,  and  throughout  the  week,  though  the 
weather  was  cold,  the  enthusiasm  could  not  be  chilled.  The 
only  unfortunate  condition  of  the  entire  week  was  the  prevalence 
of  the  grippe.  Thousands  of  cases  were  reported  in  the  city, 
and  a  number  of  Tabernacle  men  and  women  were  prevented 
by  it  from  attending  the  celebration. 

When  the  chapel  was  thrown  open  on  Wednesday  evening 
of  the  sixteenth  every  seat  was  soon  occupied,  and  the  few  late 
comers  were  obliged  to  stand.  The  meeting  was  one  devoted 
to  reminiscences.  Only  men  with  gray  hair  were  allowed  to 
speak.  The  first  speaker  was  Deacon  Charles  Whittemore,  who 
has  been  a  member  of  the  church  for  forty  years.     His  sub- 

*  This  account  of  the  celebration  of  the  Sixtieth  Anniversary  is  condensed 
from  the  Broadway  Tabernacle  Tidings,  for  February,  1901. 

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REV.    CHARLES    E.    JEFFERSON,    D.D. 
Present  Pastor,  Called  1898 


The  Sixtieth  Anniversary 

ject  was  "  The  Old  Tabernacle."  He  was  followed  by  Dea- 
con William  B.  Holmes,  of  Montclair.  Mr.  Holmes,  along 
with  his  brother  Samuel,  joined  the  Tabernacle  in  December, 
1853,  and  on  removing  in  1870  to  Montclair,  N.  J.,  had  been 
one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  organization  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  that  town,  of  which  Dr.  Amory  H.  Bradford 
has  been  the  first  and  only  pastor.  Deacon  Holmes's  subject 
was  "  Memories  of  Early  Times."  The  next  speaker  was  Dea- 
con Richard  A.  Dorman,  who  joined  the  church  while  he  was 
yet  a  boy  in  1852.  In  church  membership  he  is  the  oldest  male 
member  of  the  church.  His  subject  was  "  The  Early  Pastors." 
He  was  followed  by  Deacon  John  H.  Washburn,  a  member 
of  the  church  since  1865.  His  subject  was  "  The  Old  Strug- 
gles and  Victories."  The  fifth  speaker  was  Dr.  William  H. 
Thomson,  who  united  with  the  church  in  1861.  He  spoke  of 
"  The  Old  Friends."  All  these  five  papers  were  carefully  pre- 
pared, and,  while  dealing  in  large  measure  with  the  same  char- 
acters and  events,  were  widely  different  in  treatment,  and  held 
the  closest  attention  of  the  large  and  sympathetic  audience. 
The  last  speech  of  the  evening  was  not  down  on  the  programme, 
but  was  not  surpassed  in  interest  and  impressiveness  by  any 
that  had  preceded  it.  It  was  given  by  Dr.  Thomas  S.  Hast- 
ings, ex-President  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  for  many 
years  an  admirer  of  the  church  and  acquainted  with  its  his- 
tory, at  one  time  an  attendant  at  its  services,  a  close  compan- 
ion of  Dr.  Taylor,  and  the  dear  friend  of  many  members  of 
the  church. 

This  meeting,  designed  to  bring  former  things  to  mind,  was 
specially  enjoyed  by  the  older  people,  but  it  held  the  youngest 
in  delighted  attention.  Many  of  those  who  have  joined  the 
church  in  recent  days  had  never  known  the  glories  of  its 
golden  history,  and  had  never  realized  the  richness  of  the  in- 
heritance into  which  they  had  entered. 

A  description  of  the  meeting  would  not  be  complete  with- 
out reference  to  the  elaborate  and  tasteful  decorations.  On 
entering  the  door  one  scarcely  realized  that  he  was  looking 
at  a  room  with  which  he  had  been  familiar  for  many  years. 

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The  walls  were  almost  completely  hidden  by  flags  of  all  sizes 
worked  into  tasteful  patterns  and  combinations,  while  the  pul- 
pit was  a  garden  of  palms.  It  was  the  design  of  the  commit- 
tee to  whom  the  work  of  decoration  had  been  entrusted  to 
suggest  to  every  mind  and  heart  the  part  which  the  church 
had  played  in  one  of  the  crises  of  our  national  history,  and 
the  effect  produced  was  the  very  one  designed.  All  through 
the  celebration  one  breathed  the  spirit  of  patriotism,  and  wher- 
ever the  eye  might  wander  it  was  certain  to  fall  upon  a  flag. 

Two  evenings  later  the  great  Reception  was  given.  The 
primary  purpose  of  a  reception  was  to  bring  together  not 
only  the  present  members  of  the  church,  but  the  former  mem- 
bers also,  and  likewise  members  of  the  general  congrega- 
tion. This  was  all  the  more  necessary  as  the  celebration  was 
to  close  with  a  dinner  to  which,  owing  to  the  scant  accom- 
modation of  the  parlors,  only  present  members  of  the  church 
could  be  admitted.  Special  invitations  were  mailed  to  every 
Congregational  church  in  Greater  New  York.  Along  with  this 
invitation  the  pastor  sent  a  personal  letter  to  every  Congrega- 
tional pastor  in  Greater  New  York,  emphasizing  the  cordiality 
of  the  invitation  and  requesting  that  there  might  be  from  his 
church  a  goodly  delegation  of  Congregationalists  to  rejoice 
with  the  mother  church  in  her  great  festivities.  It  was  pos- 
sible by  a  diligent  study  of  the  city  directory  to  locate  about 
two  hundred  former  members  who  have  joined  other  churches 
in  this  part  of  the  world,  and  to  each  of  these  an  invitation 
was  mailed. 

The  parlors  were  in  holiday  array  for  the  Reception.  The 
walls  were  covered  with  portraits  and  photographs  of  men 
illustrious  in  Tabernacle  history,  and  wherever  there  was  a 
space  not  occupied  by  a  picture  it  was  covered  by  a  flag.  The 
orchestra  was  in  its  place,  filling  all  the  room  with  music,  and 
the  tables  in  the  corner  were  piled  with  good  things  to  eat. 
The  pastor  and  his  wife,  the  deacons  and  their  wives,  the  trus- 
tees and  their  wives  formed  a  line  across  the  north  end  of  the 
parlor,  ready  to  meet  their  guests.  To  the  regret  of  all,  the 
health  of  Mrs.  William  M.  Taylor  would  not  allow  her  to  be 

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The  Sixtieth  Anniversary 

present,  and  one  of  her  daughters,  Mrs.  Maitland,  with  her  hus- 
band, took  her  place.  For  three  hours  the  guests  came  and 
went  incessantly.  Three  hospitality  committees  had  been  ap- 
pointed; the  first  a  committee  of  twelve  young  women,  the 
second  of  twelve  young  men,  the  third  of  twelve  young  mar- 
ried couples,  the  idea  being  to  bring  to  the  front  the  younger 
life  of  the  church,  that  the  guests  might  see  that  the  Taber- 
nacle has  not  only  a  past  but  a  future.  Also  in  addition  to 
these  three  committees  there  was  a  corps  of  twelve  ushers.  For 
all  these  there  was  a  busy  evening.  Every  square  foot  of 
space  was  occupied,  but  the  crowd  was  not  too  great  for  com- 
fort. 

After  nearly  two  hours  of  conversation,  the  chairman  of 
the  committee,  Dr.  Fisher,  called  on  Dr.  W.  J.  Peck,  for 
many  years  the  pastor  of  an  independent  church  in  Corona  but 
still  a  member  of  the  church,  to  speak  for  non-resident  mem- 
bers. After  him  the  chairman  called  upon  Mr.  Charles  Stewart 
Smith  and  Mr.  James  Talcott  to  speak  a  few  words  on  be- 
half of  former  members  of  the  church.  These  speeches  were 
followed  with  the  closest  interest.  Dr.  Frank  E.  Ramsdell,  the 
new  pastor  of  the  Pilgrim  Church  in  Harlem,  was  then  intro- 
duced to  give  the  greeting  from  Congregational  churches  in 
Manhattan  and  the  Bronx.  The  last  speaker  of  the  evening 
was  Dr.  T.  B.  McLeod,  pastor  of  Clinton  Avenue  Church  in 
Brooklyn,  who  brought  warm  greetings  from  sister  churches 
across  the  East  River.  There  were  many  churches  represented, 
and  after  living  an  evening  in  an  atmosphere  so  warm  and 
bracing  it  was  easy  to  believe  that  Congregational  fellowship 
is  indeed  a  vital  and  substantial  reality. 

Sunday  was  the  great  day  of  the  feast.  The  programme  em- 
braced a  sermon  in  the  morning,  by  the  pastor,  in  the  afternoon 
a  Sunday-school  celebration  with  interesting  features,  in  the 
evening  a  Christian  Endeavor  meeting  with  historic  papers, 
and  at  eight  o'clock  a  Fellowship  Meeting  with  addresses  by 
five  distinguished  clergymen  representing  as  many  branches  of 
the  Christian  Church.     Sunday  arrived  bright  and  cold. 

The  auditorium  was  a  picture  worth  seeing.     A  member  of 

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the  church,  wishing  nothing  to  be  left  undone  to  make  the 
celebration  complete,  had  sent  to  the  decorating  committee  a 
check  so  generous  that  they  were  able  to  provide  the  most 
artistic  adornment.  All  around  the  church  the  flags  extended, 
and  what  a  dream  of  beauty  the  old  organ  was !  Its  sober  pipes 
had  blossomed  out  in  flags  even  to  the  roof.  Through  the  civil 
war  it  was  the  custom  to  drape  the  organ  with  flags,  and  so 
every  flag  on  that  morning  called  back  to  many  minds  the  days 
when  Dr.  J.  P.  Thompson  thundered  against  slavery  and  rallied 
the  fainting  city  to  new  loyalty  to  the  Union. 

On  an  occasion  so  august  it  was  felt  that  every  ministerial 
officer  of  our  great  national  missionary  societies,  residing  in 
New  York  or  vicinity,  ought  to  participate  in  the  services. 
They  were  accordingly  invited  and  accepted  the  invitation. 

The  hymns  were  those  sung  forty-one  years  before  at  the 
dedication  of  the  church.  The  words  of  the  anthem  were  writ- 
ten for  the  occasion  by  the  pastor,  and  the  music  by  the  organist 
of  the  church,  Mr.  Hawley.  The  sermon  by  the  pastor  was 
not  so  long  as  that  of  Professor  Edwards  A.  Park  at  the  dedi- 
cation of  the  church  in  1859,  which  was  two  hours  in  length. 
The  pastor  gave  an  extended  history  covering  sixty  years,  and 
did  it  in  sixty-three  minutes. 

The  Bible  School  celebration  at  3.30  in  the  afternoon  had 
for  its  most  striking  feature  the  singing  by  members  of  the 
Bethany  school.  Under  the  able  leadership  of  Mr.  Hayden 
the  school  has  become  a  choral  society,  and  the  musical 
programme  furnished  by  the  school  at  Christmas  is  one  of  the 
great  features  of  the  Bethany  year.  When  it  became  known 
that  the  Bethany  children  were  coming,  a  generous  woman 
of  the  Tabernacle  promptly  placed  at  their  disposal  a  number 
of  Fifth  Avenue  omnibuses.  The  programme  was  carried  out 
as  printed. 

Notwithstanding  the  fulness  of  the  afternoon  there  was  a 
good  attendance  at  Dr.  Thomson's  Bible  class  at  five  o'clock, 
and  at  seven  the  chapel  was  well  filled  when  the  Christian  En- 
deavor celebration  was  opened  by  its  president,  Mr.  Ellenwood. 

But  it  may  be  questioned  whether  the  great  meeting  of  the 

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day  was  not  the  Fellowship  Meeting  held  in  the  auditorium 
at  eight  o'clock.  The  world  is  hungry  for  Christian  unity, 
and  every  manifestation  of  it  is  greeted  with  enthusiasm  and 
thanksgiving  by  the  large  number  of  Christians  who  are  pray- 
ing for  a  better  day.  For  the  Tabernacle  to  have  celebrated  an 
anniversary  without  inviting  any  of  her  neighbors  would  have 
been  an  act  contrary  to  the  entire  trend  of  her  spiritual  his- 
tory. The  men  who  were  invited  were  strong  men,  finely  rep- 
resentative of  the  branches  of  the  Christian  church  from  which 
they  came.  Foremost  in  the  list  was  Dr.  Henry  A.  Stimson, 
former  pastor  of  the  Tabernacle,  and  now  pastor  of  the  Man- 
hattan Congregational  Church  on  the  West  Side.  He  was 
followed  by  Dr.  Marvin  R.  Vincent,  professor  in  the  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  a  dear  friend  of  Dr.  Taylor,  represent- 
ing the  Presbyterian  Church.  Next  came  Dr.  David  H.  Greer, 
rector  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Episcopal  Church,  and  the  well 
known  Baptist  minister  Dr.  Edward  Judson,  of  the  Judson 
Memorial  Church.  The  last  speaker  of  the  evening  was  Dr. 
J.  M.  Buckley,  Methodist,  editor  of  the  New  York  Christian 
Advocate. 

After  the  great  meetings  of  Sunday  there  was  rest  for  a 
day.  On  Tuesday  morning  at  10.30,  women  of  the  church 
came  together  to  listen  to  five  historical  papers  in  which  were 
set  forth  the  labors  of  the  Society  for  Women's  Work.  On 
Tuesday  evening  the  Denominational  Meeting  was  held.  In 
celebrating  the  history  of  the  local  church  it  was  necessary  to 
dwell  upon  the  history  of  the  denomination,  and  to  forecast 
its  career  in  the  century  to  come.  As  a  recognition  of  this 
larger  fellowship,  six  Congregational  ministers  were  asked  to 
take  part  in  the  services :  Rev.  William  T.  Williams,  pastor 
of  the  Welsh  Church ;  Rev.  William  H.  Kephart,  of  the  North 
Congregational  Church;  Dr.  F.  B.  Makepeace,  of  the  Trinity 
Congregational  Church,  and  the  Rev.  H.  M.  Brown,  pastor  of 
the  Christ  Congregational  Church,  all  of  New  York.  The 
theme  of  the  evening  was  Congregationalism,  past,  present,  and 
future.  Dr.  Amory  H.  Bradford,  Montclair,  spoke  on  "  The 
Congregationalism  of  Yesterday."     General  O.  O.  Howard, 

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formerly  a  member  of  the  Tabernacle,  spoke  on  "  The  Congre- 
gationalism of  To-day."  Dr.  Josiah  Strong  on  "  The  Con- 
gregationalism of  To-morrow."  The  addresses  were  highly 
appreciated  by  all  present. 

All  the  meetings  thus  far  outlined  were  full  of  inspiration, 
but  the  celebration  reached  its  climax  Wednesday  evening  in 
the  Church  Dinner.  It  was  an  evening  never  to  be  forgotten 
by  any  one  who  was  present.  Twenty  tables  were  set,  each 
accommodating  ten  persons.  There  were  flowers  and  music 
and  a  bountiful  repast,  and  much  delightful  conversation,  but 
the  feature  of  the  occasion  was  the  after-dinner  speaking.  It 
was  all  by  members  of  the  Tabernacle,  all  of  them  laymen. 
The  celebration  began  with  the  reminiscences  of  laymen,  and 
it  was  fitly  closed  by  the  prophecies  of  laymen.  The  speakers 
were  ten  in  number.  There  were  only  two  toasts  to  which 
they  were  asked  to  speak :  "  The  Tabernacle  of  the  Past "  and 
"  The  Tabernacle  of  the  Future."  The  first  subject  was  as- 
signed to  two  trustees  and  three  deacons :  Messrs.  Bliss,  Wash- 
burn, Hubbard,  Warner,  and  Houghton.  The  prophets  were 
Messrs.  Gaylord,  Hayden,  Simpson,  Bates,  and  Hamlin.  It 
would  be  impossible  to  say  which  were  more  inspiring,  the  his- 
torians, or  the  prophets  who  alternated  with  them.  Even  the 
historians  became  at  times  prophetic,  and  the  prophets  saw 
such  visions  and  dreamed  such  dreams  that  it  was  impossible 
for  any  one  to  doubt  that  the  future  will  be  in  every  way  as 
rich  and  glorious  as  the  past.  It  was  almost  midnight  when 
the  voice  of  the  last  of  the  prophets  died  on  the  air,  and  the 
pastor  rose  to  request  that  one  stanza  of  "  Blest  be  the  tie 
that  binds  "  be  sung.  Thrilled  with  joy  and  love  the  church 
instinctively  burst  into  song. 

It  was  with  prayer  and  benediction  by  the  pastor  that  the 
celebration  of  the  sixtieth  anniversary  of  the  Broadway  Tab- 
ernacle was  closed. 

This  narrative  would  not  be  complete  without  a  paragraph 
concerning  the  Church  Exhibit.  A  church,  like  an  individual, 
leaves  evidences  of  its  activity  across  the  years,  and  it  is  in- 
spiring now  and  then  for  a  church  to  gather  up  its  achieve- 

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ments,  to  see  so  far  as  it  is  possible  to  see  such  things,  just 
what  it  has  accomplished.  It  was  proposed,  therefore,  when 
first  the  idea  of  the  celebration  was  mooted,  to  gather  the  photo- 
graphs of  the  ministers  and  officers  of  the  church,  the  pam- 
phlets and  books  written  and  published  by  members  of  the 
church,  and  that  on  charts  there  be  presented  to  the  eye  not 
only  the  men  and  women  whom  the  church  has  contributed 
to  religious  work,  but  also  the  money  which  it  has  poured  into 
the  coffers  of  philanthropic  and  missionary  enterprises.  All 
that  was  planned  was  carried  out.  The  exhibit  was  an  un- 
qualified success.  Paintings  and  engravings  and  photographs 
were  brought  together  in  numbers  sufficient  to  cover  large 
areas  of  the  two  sides  of  the  parlors.  Books  and  pamphlets 
and  papers  were  collected  sufficient  in  number  to  fill  several 
large  glass  cases.  Charts  were  prepared  exhibiting  the  names 
of  the  church's  most  distinguished  workmen  in  the  vineyard 
of  the  Lord,  and  on  other  charts  the  whole  story  of  its  benevo- 
lences was  shown  in  such  a  way  as  to  catch  the  eye  and  thrill 
the  heart.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  exhibit  in  every  de- 
partment was  far  from  complete.  The  committee  worked  with 
indefatigable  industry,  but  many  months  of  constant  labor 
would  have  been  necessary  to  ascertain  all  the  facts  and  gather 
together  all  the  material  which  might  rightly  claim  a  place 
in  such  an  exhibition.  The  lists  of  workers  who  are  or  have 
been  members  of  this  church,  though  not  complete,  are  sug- 
gestive.   Here  they  are: 

MINISTERS. 

William  Adamson,  Elijah  C.  Baldwin,  Walter  M.  Barrows, 
D.D.,  Hubbard  Beebe,  Allen  Page  Bissell,  Joel  Blackmer, 
Charles  P.  Blanchard,  Professor  Charles  R.  Bliss,  S.  Bourne, 
Professor  Francis  Brown,  D.D.,  Amzi  Camp,  A.  Huntington 
Clapp,  D.D.,  L.  Henry  Cobb,  D.D.,  Samuel  Colcord,  William 
Henry  Colton,  Julius  L.  Danner,  David  D.  Davis,  John  P.  De 
Merritt,  Myron  Samuel  Dudley,  Richard  C.  Dunn,  Ephraem 
Menachem  Epstein,  David  Fitch,  Daniel  W.  Fox,  Edward  W. 
Gilman,  D.D.,  Richard  Gidman,  Joseph  F.  Gaylord,  Franklin 

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A.  Gaylord,  Luther  Halsey  Gulick,  Sidney  L.  Gulick,  Charles 
L.  Hall,  Joshua  B.  Hall,  R.  L.  Hall,  Chauncey  L.  Hamlin, 
Henry  R.  Harris,  Joseph  Harris,  Robert  W.  Haskins,  L. 
Smith  Hobart,  Joseph  D.  Hull,  George  Jackson,  Edwin  John- 
son, D.D.,  John  Kershaw,  Daniel  Lancaster,  Philo  F.  Leaven, 
William  E.  Locke,  John  D.  Long,  Payson  W.  Lyman,  Ben- 
jamin N.  Martin,  D.D.,  Alexander  S.  McLeod,  William  C 
Merritt,  Edward  C.  Merriam,  Benjamin  F.  Millerd,  Ray 
Palmer,  D.D.,  William  J.  Peck,  Absalom  Peters,  D.D.,  Edward 
N.  Pomeroy,  Theodore  S.  Pond,  Charles  H.  Pratt,  Edward 
Pratt,  Edward  A.  Rand,  Adoniram  Judson  Rich,  Frank  Rus- 
sell, D.D.,  John  A.  Seymour,  R.  Bayard  Snowden,  John  C. 
Taylor,  William  H.  Teel,  Stefano  L.  Testa,  William  H. 
Thomas,  James  B.  Thompson,  Thomas  G.  Thurston,  George 
P.  Tindall,  Henry  B.  Underwood,  Rufus  S.  Underwood, 
Charles  Van  Norden,  James  H.  Warren,  Charles  C.  Watson, 
Mosely  H.  Williams,  William  Henry  Wolcott. 

foreign    missionaries. 

Dr.  Nahabed  Abdalian,  Dr.  Charles  L.  Bliss,  Dr.  Burt  N. 
Bridgman,  Miss  Caroline  E.  Bush,  Mrs.  Margaret  Chandler, 
Dr.  Luther  Halsey  Gulick,  Rev.  Sidney  L.  Gulick,  Deacon 
Henry  C.  Hall,  Mr.  George  Lawrence,  Rev.  William  Edwin 
Locke,  Rev.  Theodore  S.  Pond,  Rev.  Barnabas  Root,  Dr.  Ida 
Salmon  Stapleton,  Deacon  Matthew  Starr,  Rev.  James  B. 
Thompson. 

WORKERS     IN     CITY     AND     HOME     MISSIONS. 

William  F.  Barnard,  Rev.  Amzi  Camp,  Rev.  Samuel  Col- 
cord,  Rev.  Ephraem  Menachem  Epstein,  Rev.  Charles  L.  Hall, 
Mrs.  Emma  Calhoun  Hall,  Rev.  George  Jackson,  Rev.  Ed- 
ward Pratt,  Rev.  John  A.  Seymour. 

OFFICERS    OF    MISSIONARY    SOCIETIES. 

Rev.  Milton  Badger,  D.D.,*  Secretary  of  the  American 
Home  Missionary  Society;    Rev.  Walter  M.  Barrows,  D.D., 

*  Member  of  the  society  though  not  of  the  church. 
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Secretary  of  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society;  Rev. 
Charles  P.  Bush,  D.D.,*  District  Secretary  of  the  American 
Board ;  Norman  A.  Calkins,  LL.D.,  Treasurer  of  the  Congre- 
gational Union;  Rev.  A.  H.  Clapp,  D.D.,  Secretary  of  the 
American  Home  Missionary  Society  and  Treasurer  of  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society;  Rev.  L.  H.  Cobb, 
D.D.,  Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Church  Building  So- 
ciety ;  Rev.  Edward  W.  Gilman,  D.D.,  Secretary  of  the  Ameri- 
can Bible  Society;  General  O.  O.  Howard,  President  of  the 
Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society;  Miss  Delia  E. 
Emerson,  Secretary  of  Woman's  Bureau,  American  Missionary 
Association;  Deacon  Henry  W.  Hubbard,  Treasurer  of  the 
American  Missionary  Association;  Rev.  Ray  Palmer,  D.D., 
Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Union ;  Rev.  Absalom  Peters, 
D.D.,  Secretary  of  the  Home  Missionary  Society ;  Miss  Ellen  C. 
Parsons,  Editor  for  the  Presbyterian  Women's  Boards;  Rev. 
Henry  A.  Stimson,  President  of  the  Congregational  Church 
Building  Society ;  Rev.  William  M.  Taylor,  D.D.,  President  of 
the  American  Missionary  Association  and  of  the  Congrega- 
tional Union;  Mr.  Langdon  S.  Ward,  Treasurer  of  the 
American  Board. 

executive   officers   of   benevolent   boards    and 
institutions. 

Deacon  Austin  Abbott,  Charles  Abernethy,  Mrs.  Charles 
Abernethy,  Rev.  Samuel  Colcord,  Mrs.  R.  A.  Dorman,  George 
S.  Edgell,  William  C.  Gilman,  Mrs.  Hamilton  S.  Gordon,  Mrs. 
Horace  Green,  A.  S.  Hatch,  Deacon  Samuel  Holmes,  General 
O.  O.  Howard,  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Houghton,  Caleb  C.  Knevals, 
Deacon  William  C.  Lambert,  James  T.  Leavitt,  Charles  L. 
Mead,  Francis  A.  Palmer,  Thomas  Ritter,  Mrs.  Marshall  O. 
(Caroline  D.)  Roberts,  Deacon  William  Henry  Smith,  Miss 
Lucy  M.  Spelman,  Lucien  C.  Warner,  John  H.  Washburn, 
William  Ives  Washburn. 

A  synopsis  of  the  benevolences  of  the  church  is  given  be- 

*  Member  of  the  society,  though  not  of  the  church. 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

low.     An  itemized  account  of  the  first  thirty  years  cannot  be 
obtained. 


BENEVOLENCES  OF  THE    BROADWAY  TABERNACLE  CHURCH,  1840-1900. 


American 
Board. 

Home 
Missions. 

American  Mis- 
sionary  As- 
sociation. 

Church 
Building. 

Church  Ex- 
tension. 

1872-1880 

I8SI-I890 

§26.030.12 
33,405.02 
43,187.17 

$18,767.25 
67,416.44 
50,760.82 

$5,994-54 
18,171.52 
22,670.66 

$5.4i7-52 
10,705.50 
10,490.04 

$2,398.49 

Totals 

$102,622.31 

§136,944.51 

$46,836.72 

$26,613.06 

$27,442.79 

Education. 

Bethany. 

Deacons' 

Fund. 

Hospitals. 

Seamen. 

1872-1880  

1881-1890 

$3,805.44 
5.495-78 
5,808.90 

$35,406.82 
84,588.63 
49,5x2.21 

$18,955.29 
I5.697-74 
9,121.05 

$466.51 
11,496.79 
10,077.29 

$4,627.77 
4,548.96 
1,406.26 

Totals 

$15,110.12 

$169,507.66 

$43.774-o8 

$22,040.59 

$10,582.99 

City  Charities. 

Miscellaneous. 

Totals. 

1872-18S0 

$350,000.00 
161,487.85 
313,784.32 
265,021.44 

Benevolences  a                  , 
ot  the  Church,  « '.°9°.*93.6i 

$10,610.93 
16,444.01 
5,180.41 

$13,307.61 
21,815.06 
26,528.26 

Individual  Gifts  ,  <,  „„,  „ 

(partial  list),      *. 008,923.00 

Totals 

$32.235-35 

$61,650.93 

$1,090,293.61 

THE     GIFTS     OF     A     FEW     MEN. 


Presbyterian  Hospital    , 

Manhattan  Church  , 

Berea  College 

Yale  Seminary 

Young  Women's  Christian  Association. 

Woman's  Hospital 

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$2,000 

2,500 

3>°5o 

3.955 

4,555 
5,000 


The  Sixtieth  Anniversary 

Home  for  Aged  Ministers'  Families $15,000 

Stamford,  Conn 20,000 

College  in  Ohio 25,000 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association 35>8oo 

Eddytown,  N.  Y 70,000 

Western  Colleges 100,000 

Bedford,  N.  Y 100,000 

Boys'  Club,  Fall  River,  Mass 100,000 

Oberlin  College   I32>°65 

New  York  City 150,000 

Francis  Asbury  Palmer  Fund 240,000 

Total  $1,008,925 

In  the  book  exhibit  were  books  and  pamphlets  by  William 
F.  Barnard,  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Rev.  L.  H.  Cobb,  Rev.  Sam- 
uel Colcord,  Martin  H.  Early,  Augustus  Gaylord,  President 
Daniel  Coit  Gilman,  Sidney  H.  Gulick,  David  Hale,  Rev. 
Charles  L.  Hall,  Mrs.  Henry  Clay  Hall,  Professor  A.  D.  F. 
Hamlin,  Chester  Holcombe,  Dr.  Henry  C.  Houghton,  General 
O.  O.  Howard,  Mrs.  Holloway,  Rev.  Charles  E.  Jefferson, 
Lewis  S.  Judd,  Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons,  Dr.  William  H.  Porter, 
Dr.  George  T.  Stevens,  Rev.  H.  A.  Stimson,  Dr.  W.  L.  Stow- 
ell,  Rev.  William  M.  Taylor,  Rev.  Joseph  P.  Thompson,  Dr. 
William  H.  Thomson,  Miss  Hetta  L.  H.  Ward,  Miss  Susan 
Hayes  Ward,  Dr.  Lucien  C.  Warner,  John  H.  Washburn,  Mrs. 
John  H.  Washburn,  William  Ives  Washburn. 

In  the  picture  gallery  the  faces  of  the  following  men  were 
to  be  seen,  some  of  them  in  oil,  some  of  them  in  crayon, 
some  of  them  in  steel  engravings,  and  many  of  them  in  photo- 
graphs— of  many  of  them  there  were  pictures  taken  in  dif- 
ferent periods  in  life: 

PASTORS. 

Rev.  E.  W.  Andrews,  Rev.  J.  P.  Thompson,  D.D.,  Rev.  W. 
M.  Taylor,  D.D.,  Rev.  H.  A.  Stimson,  D.D.,  Rev.  C.  E.  Jef- 
ferson, D.D. 

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deacons. 

Henry  Whittlesey,  Samuel  Holmes,  Israel  Minor,  H.  C. 
Hall,  William  H.  Smith,  W.  G.  Lambert,  Dr.  William  H. 
Thomson,  Austin  Abbott,  Samuel  Pitts,  Thomas  W.  Whitte- 
more,  John  H.  Washburn,  H.  W.  Hubbard,  Dr.  H.  C.  Hough- 
ton, Charles  Whittemore,  Augustus  Gaylord,  Dr.  L.  C.  War- 
ner, Charles  L.  Mead,  R.  A.  Dorman. 

TRUSTEES. 

Charles  Abernethy,  Nathaniel  Fisher,  Cornelius  N.  Bliss, 
M.  C.  D.  Borden,  Caleb  B.  Knevals,  Levi  M.  Bates,  Joel  E. 
Fisher,  Irving  R.  Fisher,  William  Ives  Washburn,  Charles 
Stewart  Smith. 

treasurer.  clerk. 

William  B.  Holmes.  E.  F.  Browning. 

members  of   church   committee. 

Seth  W.  Benedict,  General  O.  O.  Howard,  Rev.  A.  H. 
Clapp,  D.D.,  William  Allen,  David  Hale. 

SEXTON. 

F.  S.  Boyd. 

To  project  and  carry  out  an  extensive  and  elaborate  cele- 
bration requires  much  time  and  strength  and  labor,  and  the 
jubilee  could  never  have  been  so  successfully  carried  through 
had  it  not  been  for  a  host  of  willing  and  enthusiastic  workers. 
The  church  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  not  only  to  the  mem- 
bers of  the  various  committees,  but  also  to  many  others,  both 
men  and  women,  who,  though  not  members  of  a  committee, 
carried  out  with  alacrity  and  ability  the  plans  which  the  com- 
mittee had  suggested. 


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3Fanuarp  16  to  ^anuarp  23 

1901 


Wednesday  Evening 


JANUARY   16,  1901 


8  O'CLOCK 
IN  THE  CHAPEL 


THE  PASTOR  PRESIDING 

The  Old  Tabernacle  Deacon  Charles  Whittemore 
Memories  of  Early  Times  Mb.  William  B.  Holmes 
The  Early  Pastors  Deacon  Richard  A.  Dorman 


The  Old  Struggles  and  Victories 

Deacon  John  H.  Washburn 


The  Old  Friends  Deacon  William  H.  Thomson 


Friday  Evening  ; 


JANUARY  18,  1901 


8  O  CLOCK 
IN  THE  CHURCH   PARLORS 


deception 


THE   PASTOR  AND   HIS  WIFE, 

THE  TRUSTEES  AND  THEIR  WIVES,    AND 

THE  DEACONS  AND  THEIR  WIVES 

WILL   RECEIVE 


Music  by  Orchestra 

Remarks 

Rev.  William  J.   Peck,    for  Non-Resident  Members 

Mr.  Charles  Stewart  Smith,  J  for  Former  Members 
Mr.  James  Talcott,  ) 

Rev.    Frank    E.    Ramsdell,    for    the    Churches    in 
Manhattan 

Rev.   J.   B.   McLeod,    for  the  Churches  in  Brooklyn 
Refreshments 


Sunday  Morning 

JANUARY  20,  1901 


11  O'CLOCK 
IN  THE  AUDITORIUM 


^* 

Organ  Prelude 

Doxology Congregation  Standing 

Invocation Rev.  C.  J.  Ryder 

Anthem    "All  Thy  works  praise  Thee,  O  Lord"    Hawley 
Responsive  Reading    .  Rev.  Washington  Choate 

Hymn Congregation  Standing 

Scripture Rev.  C.  C.  Creegan 

Prayer Rev.  J.  B.  Clarke 

Response By  the  Choir 

Offering 

Anthem      "How  Beautiful  Upon  the  Mountains"     Day  as 

Historical  Sermon By  the  Pastor 

Hymn Congregation  Standing 

Prayer  and  Benediction      .        .       .  Rev.  A.  F.  Beard 
Organ  Postlude 


Sunday  Afternoon 

JANUARY  20,  1901 


J.30  O  CLOCK 
IN  THE  AUDITORIUM 


25iMe  J>c&ool  Ctfeferation 

Tabernacle  and  Bethany  Schools  Uniting 

<y 

MR.    HARRIS  H.    HAYDEN,    SUPT.,    PRESIDING 

Hymn     "When  Morning  Gilds  the  Skies" 

Scripture  Reading  .         Rev.  N.  M.  Pratt 

Hymn     "Soldiers  of  the  Cross" 

Prayer Mr.  R.  A.  Dorman 

Hymn     "O  God  Accept  Our  Hearts  this  Day  " 

Historical  Paper    .        .    Mrs.  Annie  Fisher  Strebeigh 

Hymn     "Forward!  Be  Our  Watchword" 

Paper    "Work  with  the  Little  People" 

Mrs.  D.  S.  Pillsbury 

Solo         .        .        .     Mrs.  Bessie  Chittenden  Richards 

Address Rev.  F.  B.  Richards 

Hymn     "Onward,  Christian  Soldiers" 

Introductions  and  Messages 

Hymn     "All  Hail  the  Power  of  Jesus'  Name" 


Sunday  Evening 

JANUARY  20,  1901 


7  O'CLOCK 
IN  THE  CHURCH  PARLORS 


§,  $♦  &.  C  €.  Meeting 

^* 

MR.   J.    R.    ELLENWOOD,    PRES.,   PRESIDING 
^* 

Hymn 

Devotional  Exercises 

Greeting  by  the  Pastor       Rev.  Charles  E.  Jefferson 

••Our  Society"  from  1893-95 

Mr.  C.  L.  Thorne 
Miss  Marie  S.  Poole 

Soprano  Solo      "In  Heavenly  Love  Abiding"     A.  Lassen 
Mrs.  W.  J.  Finch 

"Our  Society"  from  1896-97 

Mr.  E.  V.  Bladen 
Mrs.  O.  Florence 

Hymn 

"Our  Society"  from  1898-1901 

Mr.  W.  J.  Finch 
Mr.  J.  R.  Ellenwood 

The  Church  and  "Our  Society" 

Deacon  EL  W.  Hubbard 

Prayer Rev.  George  A.  Gordon 

Mizpah All  Uniting 


Sunday  Evening 

JANUARY  20,  1901 


8  O  CLOCK 
IN  THE  AUDITORIUM 


f  eitotoietyip  Meeting 


THE  PASTOR   PRESIDING 


Rev.  Arthur  J.  Wyman 

Rev.  George  A.  Gordon 

.     Rev.  L.  Henry  Cobb 

"O  Lord,  Thou  Art  Great"  Coombs 


Organ  Prelude 

Doxology 

Invocation 

Hymn 

Scripture 

Prayer 

Anthem 

Addresses 

Rev.  Henry  A.  Sttmson 
Rev.  Marvin  R.  Vincent 
Rev.  David  H.  Greer 
Rev.  Edward  Judson 
Rev.  J.  M.  Buckley 

Hymn 

Prayer  and  Benediction        Rev.  George  N.  Boardman 


Tuesday  Morning 

JANUARY  22,  1901 


10.30  O'CLOCK 
IN  THE   CHURCH   PARLORS 


Meeting  of 
€f>e  £ocictp  for  Wommy0  ^orft 

^» 

MRS.    HAMILTON   S.    GORDON,   PRES.,   PRESIDING 

The  Home  Missionary  Society 

Mrs.  William  S.  Seamans 

The  Foreign  Missionary  Society 

Miss  Elizabeth  R.  Fisher 

The  Helping  Hand  .  .  Mrs.  Hamilton  S.  Gordon 
The  Sewing  School  .  .  .  Miss  Mary  S.  Janes 
The  Kindergarten  .        .    Mrs.  Thomas  A.  Fair 

Letter  from  Miss  Bush 

Read  by  Mrs.  Edward  W.  Peet 


Tuesday  Evening 

JANUARY  22,  1901 


8  O'CLOCK 
IN  THE  AUDITORIUM 


Denominational  Meeting 

THE  PASTOR  PRESIDING 

^« 

Organ  Prelude 

Doxology 

Invocation      ....  Rev.  William  T.  Williams 

Hymn 

Scripture        ....  Rev.  William  H.  Kephart 

Prayer Rev.  F.  B.  Makepeace 

Anthem 

Address    "The  Congregationalism  of  Yesterday" 

Rev.  Amory  H.  Bradford 

Address     "The  Congregationalism  of  To-day" 

General  O.  O.  Howard 

Address    "The  Congregationalism  of  To-morrow" 

Rev.  Josiah  Strong 
Hymn 

Prayer  and  Benediction  .  Rev.  Henry  M.  Brown 


Wednesday  Evening 


JANUARY  23,  1901 


RECEPTION    AT    6  O'CLOCK,    DINNER    SERVED  AT    6.30   O'CLOCK 
IN  THE  CHURCH  PARLORS 


CJHtrcft  banquet 

THE  PASTOR  PRESIDING 


After-Dinner  Speeches 

The  Tabernacle  of  the  Pa3t 

Hon.  Cornelius  N.  Bliss 
Mr.  Henry  W.  Hubbard 
Dr.  Lucien  C  Warner 
Dr.  Henry  C  Houghton 
Mr.  William  Ives  Washburn 

The  Tabernacle  of  the  Future 

Mr.  Irving  Gaylord 
Mr.  Harris  H.  Hayden 
Mr.  Thomas  S.  Hope  Simpson 
Col.  William  G.  Bates 
Prof.  A.  D.  F.  Hamlin 


NOTb:— Owing  to  the  limited  accommodations   of   the    Church    Parlors 
only  presant  members  of  the  Tabernacle  can  be  admitted  to  the  banquet. 


Cijurcf)  txfyUt 


#n  fl^cnfeap  an&  €w£tiap 

JANUARY  21  st  and  22d 

FROM  10  A.M.  TO  10  P.M. 

HERE  will  be  in  the  Church  Parlors  an 
Exhibit  of  historical  charts,  showing  the 
benevolences  of  the  Tabernacle,  books 
written  and  published  by  members  of 
the  Church,  and  also  photographs,  en- 
gravings and  paintings  of  the  Pastors  and 
Trustees  and  Deacons  who  have  served  the 
Church  within  the  last  sixty  years.  To  this 
exhibit  the  general  public  is  cordially  invited. 


Sto 


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Committee^ 

Genera!  Committee 

PASTOR,  CHAIRMAN 

Cornelius  N.  Bliss  Dr.  William  H.  Thomson 

Irving  R.  Fisher  George  L.  Leonard 

William  Ives  Washburn        Mrs.  Hamilton  8.  Gordon 
Dr.  Lucien  C.  Warner  Mrs.  Dr.  E.  W.  Peet 

Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons 

Church  History  Church  Exhibit 

George  L.  Leonard  Mr.  Leonard 

William  J.  Whittemore  Mrs.  Hamilton  S.  Gordon 

Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons  Mrs.  E.  W.  Peet 

Charles  E.  Whittemore  Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons 

Bible  School  Celebration  Finance 

Harris  H.  Hayden  Hamilton  S.  Gordon 

Wm.  H.  Bath  Dr.  Lucien  C.  Warner 

Miss  Ellen  C.  Parsons  Nathaniel  C.  Fisher 

Invitations  Music 

Dr.  William  L.  Stowell        Harris  H.  Hayden 

Miss  Lillie  P.  Bliss 

Decoration 

Miss  Annie  C.  Benedict  Mrs.  Robert  L.  Maitland 

Mrs.  R.  C.  Cook  Miss  Lucy  M.  Spellman 

Reception 

Dr.  Edward  D.  Fisher  Dr.  Frank  B.  Carpenter 

Dr.  A.  L.  Northrop  Miss  Isabel  M.  Taylor 

Robert  L.  Maitland  Martin  H.  Early 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  R.  Wheeler 

Banquet 

Dr.  E.  W.  Peet  Mrs.  R.  A.  Dorman 

Rev.  Samuel  Colcord  Mrs.  William  H.  Thomson 

Manley  A.  Raymond  Miss  Anna  C.  Mellick 

Carriages 

Dr.  Chas.  E.  Bruce  George  B.  Bates 

Press  Printing 

Thomas  A.  Fair  W.  R.  Fearn 

Ushers 

Charles  E.  Whittemore 


It  is  a  great  responsibility  for  a  church  of  Jesus  Christ 

to  have  had  the  privilege  of  the  ministry  of 

two  such  men  as  Joseph  P.  Thompson 

and  William   M.    Taylor.      Will 

the   life    of  this   church   and 

congregation   be    such   as 

privileges  like  these 

demand  ? 

T.  S.  H. 


Appendix 


A 

A  Plan  of  Union  Between  Presbyterians  and 
Congregationalists  in  the  New  Settlements, 
Adopted  in  1801. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  appointed  to  consider  and  digest  a  plan 
of  government  for  the  churches  in  the  new  settlements  was  taken  up 
and  considered;  and,  after  mature  deliberation  on  the  same,  approved 
as  follows : 

Regulations  adopted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  America  and  by  the  General  Association  of  the  State  of  Con- 
necticut (provided  said  Association  agree  to  them)  with  a  view  to  pre- 
vent alienation  and  promote  union  and  harmony  in  those  new  settlements 
which  are  composed  of  inhabitants  from  these  bodies. 

First. — It  is  strictly  enjoined  on  all  their  missionaries  to  the  new 
settlements  to  endeavor,  by  all  proper  means,  to  promote  mutual  for- 
bearance and  accommodation  between  those  inhabitants  of  the  new 
settlements  who  hold  the  Presbyterian  and  those  who  hold  the  Congre- 
gational form  of  church  government. 

Second. — If  in  the  new  settlements  any  church  of  the  Congregational 
order  shall  settle  a  minister  of  the  Presbyterian  order,  that  church  may, 
if  they  choose,  still  conduct  their  discipline  according  to  Congregational 
principles,  settling  their  difficulties  among  themselves,  or  by  a  council 
mutually  agreed  upon  for  that  purpose.  But  if  any  difficulty  shall  exist 
between  the  minister  and  the  church,  or  any  member  of  it,  it  shall  be 
referred  to  the  Presbytery  to  which  the  minister  shall  belong,  provided 
both  parties  agree  to  it:  if  not,  to  a  council  consisting  of  an  equal 
number  of  Presbyterians  and  Congregationalists  agreed  upon  by  both 
parties.  , 

Third. — If  a  Presbyterian  church  shall  settle  a  minister  of  Congre- 
gational principles,  that  church  may  still  conduct  their  discipline  accord- 
ing to  Presbyterian  principles,  excepting  that  if  a  difficulty  arise  between 
him  and  his  church,  or  any  member  of  it,  the  cause  shall  be  tried  by  the 
Association  to  which  the  said  minister  shall  belong,  provided  both  parties 

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agree  to  it;    otherwise  by  a  council,  one-half  Congregationalists,  and 
the  other  half  Presbyterians,  mutually  agreed  upon  by  the  parties. 

Fourth. — If  any  congregation  consist  partly  of  those  who  hold  the 
Congregational  form  of  discipline,  and  partly  of  those  who  hold  the 
Presbyterian  form,  we  recommend  to  both  parties  that  this  be  no  ob- 
struction to  their  uniting  in  one  church  and  settling  a  minister,  and 
that  in  this  case  the  church  choose  a  standing  Committee  from  the  com- 
municants of  said  church,  whose  business  it  shall  be  to  call  to  account 
every  member  of  the  church  who  shall  conduct  himself  inconsistently 
with  the  laws  of  Christianity,  and  to  give  judgment  on  such  conduct, 
and  if  the  person  condemned  by  their  judgment  be  a  Presbyterian  he 
shall  have  liberty  to  appeal  to  the  Presbytery,  if  a  Congregationalist  he 
shall  have  liberty  to  appeal  to  the  body  of  the  male  communicants  of 
the  church ;  in  the  former  case  the  determination  of  the  Presbytery  shall 
be  final,  unless  the  church  consent  to  a  further  appeal  to  the  Synod,  or 
to  the  General  Assembly,  and,  in  the  latter  case,  if  the  party  condemned 
shall  wish  for  a  trial  by  a  mutual  council,  the  cause  shall  be  referred 
to  such  Council.  And,  provided  the  said  standing  Committee  of  any 
church  shall  depute  one  of  themselves  to  attend  the  Presbytery,  he  may 
have  the  same  right  to  sit  and  act  in  the  Presbytery  as  a  ruling  elder  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church. — From  the  Assembly's  Digest. 


B 

Broadway  Tabernacle  Church. — Principles  and  Rules 
Adopted  March  13,  1836. 

We  whose  names  are  hereto  subscribed  agree  to  form  ourselves  into 
the  Sixth  Free  Church  by  the  name  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle,  and 
to  adopt,  in  the  government  and  discipline  of  the  same,  the  following 
principles: 

1.  We  hold  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  supreme  head  and  lawgiver 
of  the  Church. 

2.  That  the  Bible  is  the  supreme  and  only  binding  code  of  laws  for 
the  government  of  the  Church,  and  that  in  all  matters  of  government 
and  discipline  the  Church  is  bound  to  follow  gospel  rules. 

3.  That  each  congregation  of  Christians,  meeting  in  one  place  and 
united  by  a  solemn  covenant,  is  a  complete  Church,  having  no  superior 
but  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  subject  to  no  authority  but  his,  and  from 
him  deriving  the  right  to  choose  its  own  pastor  and  church  officers  and 
to  discipline  its  own  members. 

4.  That  between  churches  so  constituted,  as  also  between  all  ministers, 
there  is  a  perfect  equality;  but  that  mutual  friendship  and  communion 
should  subsist  between  them,  leading  them  to  seek  each  other's  counsel 
and  advice  or  rebuke,  whenever  needed. 

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5.  That  such  church,  being  made  by  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  the  sole 
depository  of  all  ecclesiastical  power,  ecclesiastical  bodies,  distinct  from 
the  church,  by  whatever  name  they  may  be  called,  are  only  advisory,  and 
have  no  right  to  reverse  or  annul  the  decisions  of  a  particular  church. 

6.  That  the  ministry  is  of  divine  origin,  intended  for  the  sanctification 
of  believers,  for  the  conversion  of  sinners,  and  the  reproof  of  the  wicked, 
and  to  continue  to  the  end  of  the  world. 

7.  That  deacons  were  appointed  in  the  primitive  church  for  the  as- 
sistance of  the  ministry  and  the  care  of  the  temporal  concerns  of  the 
church. 

8.  That  every  individual  church  should  be  supplied  with  pastors  and 
deacons  according  to  the  pattern  of  the  primitive  church. 

9.  That  the  choice  of  pastors  and  deacons  should  be  made  by  the  whole 
church,  and  that  they  should  be  set  apart  to  the  office  by  prayer  and  the 
laying  on  of  hands. 

10.  That  the  admission  of  members  to  the  communion  should  be  the 
act  of  the  church  at  large,  and  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  has  laid  upon 
the  church  the  duty  of  watching  over  its  own  members  and  of  admin- 
istering discipline  as  an  important  exercise  of  Christian  graces  and  a 
means  of  sanctification. 

11.  That  in  all  cases  of  offence,  either  against  individual  members  or 
the  church  at  large,  discipline  should  proceed  upon  the  rule  laid  down 
in  the  18th  chapter  of  Matthew,  verses  16-18. 

Rules. 

In  conformity  to  these  principles  we  adopt  the  following  rules  for  the 
government  and  discipline  of  this  church: 

1.  All  elections  shall  be  made  by  the  major  vote  of  members  of  the 
church  in  good  and  regular  standing. 

2.  The  pastoral  relation  between  this  church  and  its  minister  shall  be 
constituted  and  dissolved  in  the  mode  usually  adopted  in  Congregational 
churches. 

3.  The  number  of  deacons  determined  by  church  to  be  chosen  an- 
nually, public  notice  given  two  weeks  previously.  Vacancies  to  be  filled 
by  public  meeting,  one  week's  notice. 

4.  The  minister  and  deacons  shall  together  constitute  a  session.  Dea- 
cons counsel  as  to  spiritual  interests,  attend  and  sustain  meetings  of 
enquiry,  instruction,  conference,  prayer;  visit  sick  and  attend  to  all 
temporalities  of  the  church.  They  appoint  treasurer  and  clerk  from 
their  own  body.  Treasurer  keep  account  of  receipts  and  disbursements 
and  report  monthly  to  session,  quarterly  to  church.  Clerk  keep  a  record 
of  all  meetings  of  the  session  and  church,  and  to  give  and  sign  the  cer- 
tificates of  church  membership  and  dismissions. 

5.  Pastor  preside  in  meetings  of  church  and  session,  and  have  cast- 
ing vote. 

6.  Examination  of  all  candidates  for  admission  to  church  in  open 

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meeting,  and  unanimous  vote  of  members  present,  male  and  female, 
requisite  for  admission  of  any  member. 

7.  No  member  admitted  without  oral  or  written  relation  of  religious 
experience. 

8.  Candidates  propounded  one  week  previous  to  admission. 

9.  In  cases  of  discipline  the  church  may  refer  the  duty  of  collecting 
evidence  and  preparing  case  to  the  session.  The  decision  of  majority 
of  members,  male  and  female,  final.  Counsel  of  other  churches  may  be 
sought,  but  the  power  of  censure  rests  in  the  church. 

10.  Pastor  may  convene,  by  public  notice,  session  or  church.  If  a 
majority  of  church  or  session  desire  a  meeting,  it  shall  be  duty  of  pastor 
or,  in  his  absence,  of  session  to  call  such  a  meeting. 

11.  All  meetings  open  and  close  with  prayer. 

12.  Annual  meeting,  first  Monday  in  June. 

The  Evangelist,  March  19,  1836. 


c 

Articles  of  Christian  Faith  and  Church  Government 
Adopted  by  the  Members  of  the  Broad- 
way   Tabernacle    Church. 

We,  the  subscribers,  having  agreed  to  unite  in  the  establishment  of  a 
new  Congregational  Church  in  New  York,  by  the  name  of  The  Broad- 
way Tabernacle  Church,  think  it  proper  to  make  a  declaration  of  that 
Faith  which  is  the  bond  of  our  ecclesiastical  union,  and  which  we  shall 
expect  to  find  in  all  those  who  shall  hereafter  participate  in  our  religious 
privileges  and  communion. 

First. — We  believe  that  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testament 
are  the  word  of  God,  and  the  only  perfect  rule  of  Christian  faith  and 
practice. 

Second. — We  profess  our  decided  attachment  to  that  system  of  the 
Christian  religion  which  is  distinguishingly  denominated  Evangelical; 
more  particularly  to  those  doctrines  which,  in  a  proper  sense,  are  styled 
the  Doctrines  of  Grace,  viz. :  "  That  there  is  one,  and  but  one,  living 
and  true  God,  subsisting  in  three  persons,  the  Father,  the  Son,  and  the 
Holy  Ghost;  and  that  these  Three  are  one  God,  the  same  in  substance, 
equal  in  power  and  glory;  that  God  from  all  eternity,  according  to  the 
counsel  of  His  own  will,  and  for  His  own  glory,  foreordained  whatso- 
ever comes  to  pass;  that  God,  in  His  most  holy,  wise,  and  powerful 
providence,  preserves  and  governs  all  His  creatures  and  all  their  actions ; 
that  by  the  Fall  all  mankind  lost  communion  with  God,  are  under  His 
wrath  and  curse  and  liable  to  all  the  miseries  of  this  life,  to  death  itself, 
and  to  the  pains  of  hell  forever;  that  God  out  of  His  mere  good 
pleasure,  from  all  eternity  elected  some  to  everlasting  life,  entered  into 

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a  covenant  of  grace,  to  deliver  them  from  a  state  of  sin  and  misery,  and 
introduce  them  into  a  state  of  salvation  by  a  Redeemer;  that  this  Re- 
deemer is  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  eternal  Son  of  God,  who  became 
man,  and  continues  to  be  God  and  man  in  two  distinct  natures  and  one 
person  forever;  that  the  effectual  calling  of  sinners  is  the  work  of  God's 
Spirit;  that  their  justification  is  only  for  the  sake  of  Christ's  righteous- 
ness by  faith."  And  we  hereby  covenant  and  engage,  as  fellow  Christians 
of  one  faith,  and  partakers  of  the  same  hope  and  joy,  to  give  up  our- 
selves unto  the  Lord,  for  the  observance  of  the  ordinances  of  Christ 
together  in  the  same  society,  and  to  unite  together  in  one  body  for  the 
public  worship  of  God  and  the  mutual  edification  one  of  another  in  the 
fellowship  of  the  Lord  Jesus ;  exhorting,  reproving,  comforting,  and 
watching  over  each  other,  for  mutual  edification ;  looking  for  that  blessed 
hope  and  the  glorious  appearing  of  the  great  God,  even  our  Saviour, 
Jesus  Christ,  who  gave  himself  for  us  that  He  might  redeem  us  from 
all  iniquity,  and  purify  unto  Himself  a  peculiar  people  zealous  of  good 
works. 

Form  of  Admission  to  the  Church. 

You  have  presented  yourselves  in  this  public  manner  before  God  to 
dedicate  yourselves  to  His  service  and  to  incorporate  yourselves  with 
His  visible  people.  You  are  about  to  profess  supreme  love  to  Him, 
sincere  contrition  for  all  your  sins,  and  faith  unfeigned  in  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ;  to  enter  into  a  solemn  covenant  to  receive  the  Father, 
Son,  and  Holy  Ghost  as  they  are  offered  in  the  Gospel,  and  to  walk  in 
all  the  commandments  and  ordinances  of  the  Lord  blameless.  We  trust 
you  have  well  considered  the  nature  of  these  professions  and  engage- 
ments. The  transaction  is  solemn,  and  will  be  attended  with  eternal 
consequences.  God  and  holy  angels  are  witnesses.  Your  vows  will  be 
recorded  in  heaven,  to  be  exhibited  on  your  trial  at  the  Last  Day.  Yet 
be  not  overwhelmed.  In  the  name  of  Christ  you  may  come  boldly 
to  the  God  of  Grace,  and  provided  only  you  have  sincere  desires  to  be 
His,  may  venture  thus  unalterably  to  commit  yourselves,  and  trust  in 
Him  for  strength  to  perform  your  vows. 

Attend  now  to  the 

Covenant. 

In  the  presence  of  God,  His  holy  angels,  and  this  assembly,  you  do 
now  solemnly  dedicate  yourselves  to  God  the  Father,  as  your  chief 
good ;  to  the  Son  of  God,  as  your  Mediator  and  Head,  humbly  relying 
on  Him  as  your  Prophet,  Priest,  and  King;  and  to  the  Holy  Spirit, 
as  your  Sanctifier,  Comforter,  and  Guide.  To  this  one  God,  Father, 
Son,  and  Holy  Ghost,  you  do  heartily  give  up  yourselves  in  an  ever- 
lasting covenant  to  love  and  obey  Him.  Having  subscribed  the  Articles 
of  Faith  and  Government  adopted  by  this  Church,  you  promise  to  walk 
with  us  in  conformity  to  them,  in  submission  to  all  the  orders  of  the 

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Gospel,  and  in  attendance  on  all  its  ordinances,  and  that,  by  the  aid  of 
the  Divine  Spirit,  you  will  adorn  your  profession  by  a  holy  and  blame- 
less life. 

This  you  severally  profess  and  engage. 

In  consequence  of  these  professions  and  promises,  we  affectionately 
receive  you  as  members  of  this  Church,  and  in  the  name  of  Christ 
declare  you  entitled  to  all  its  visible  privileges.  We  welcome  you  to 
this  fellowship  with  us  in  the  blessings  of  the  Gospel,  and  on  our  part 
engage  to  watch  over  you,  and  seek  your  edification,  as  long  as  you 
shall  continue  among  us.  Should  you  have  occasion  to  remove,  it  will 
be  your  duty  to  seek  and  ours  to  grant  a  recommendation  to  another 
Church ;  for  hereafter  you  can  never  withdraw  from  the  watch  and 
communion  of  the  saints  without  a  breach  of  covenant. 

And  now,  beloved  in  the  Lord,  let  it  be  impressed  on  your  minds  that 
you  have  entered  into  solemn  circumstances  from  which  you  can  never 
escape.  Wherever  you  go,  these  vows  will  be  upon  you.  They  will 
follow  you  to  the  bar  of  God,  and  in  whatever  world  you  may  be  fixed 
will  abide  upon  you  to  eternity.  You  can  never  again  be  as  you  have 
been.  You  have  unalterably  committed  yourselves,  and  henceforth  you 
must  be  the  servants  of  God.  Hereafter  the  eyes  of  the  world  will  be 
upon  you  ;  and  as  you  demean  yourselves,  so  religion  will  be  honored 
or  disgraced.  If  you  walk  worthy  of  your  profession,  you  will  be  a 
credit  and  a  comfort  to  us ;  but  if  it  be  otherwise,  you  will  be  to  us  a 
grief  of  heart  and  a  vexation.  And  if  there  is  a  wo  pronounced  on 
him  who  offends  one  of  Cbrist's  little  ones,  wo,  wo  to  the  person  who 
offends  a  whole  Church!  "  But,  beloved,  we  are  persuaded  better  things 
of  you,  and  things  that  accompany  salvation,  though  we  thus  speak." 
May  the  Lord  guide  and  preserve  you  till  death,  and  at  last  receive  you 
and  us  to  that  blessed  world  where  our  love  and  joy  shall  be  forever 
perfect.    Amen. 

For  the  Well  Ordering  of  our  Affairs,  we  Adopt  the  Following 
Declarations  and  Permanent  Rules. 

1.  The  design  of  a  Christian  Church  we  understand  to  be  the  enjoy- 
ment of  Christian  ordinances  and  the  maintenance  of  the  worship  of  God. 

2.  The  permanent  Officers  of  the  Church  shall  be  a  Pastor  and 
Deacons,  who  shall  exercise  their  respective  offices  as  directed  in  the 
Scriptures. 

3.  The  Officers  for  the  year  shall  be  a  Clerk,  who  shall  also  be  Treas- 
urer, and  five  brethren,  who  shall  co-operate  with  the  Pastor  and 
Deacons  in  the  more  especial  oversight  of  the  interests  of  the  Church. 
This  united  Committee  shall  especially  provide  for  the  supply  of  the 
pulpit  in  cases  of  emergency;  they  shall  confer  with  persons  who 
offer  themselves  for  admission  to  the  Church,  enquiring  into  their  char- 
acter and  circumstances,  and  the  reason  they  have  for  the  hope  that  is 

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in  them,  and  report  to  the  Church  the  cases  of  all  whom  they  may  deem 
suitable  candidates  for  admission. 

4.  Officers  permanent,  and  for  the  year,  shall  be  elected  by  ballot  and 
without  any  public  nomination,  unless  the  Church  shall  appoint  a  Com- 
mittee for  that  purpose. 

5.  The  Church  will  meet  for  prayer  and  conference  every  Monday 
evening.  The  Sacrament  of  the  Supper  will  be  administered  on  the 
first  Sabbaths  of  January,  March,  May,  July,  September,  and  November, 
and  the  Monday  evening  meetings  next  preceding  these  Sabbaths  shall 
be  business  meetings,  at  which  any  matter  relating  to  the  interests  of 
the  Church  may  be  introduced,  and  the  Monday  evening  preceding  the 
first  Sabbath  in  March  shall  be  the  annual  meeting,  at  which  the  Com- 
mittee shall  make  a  report  of  their  proceedings,  and  new  elections  shall 
be  made. 

6.  Candidates  for  admission  shall  be  reported  to  the  Church  at  least 
two  weeks  and  propounded  to  the  congregation  at  least  one  week  before 
the  business  meeting  at  which  their  cases  are  to  be  acted  on  by  the 
Church.  They  shall  become  members  by  election  and  signing  the  articles 
of  faith  and  covenant,  and,  those  who  have  not  done  so  before,  by 
making  a  public  profession. 

7.  All  questions  shall  be  determined  by  the  votes  of  the  male  mem- 
bers, of  lawful  age,  present  on  the  occasion. 

8.  The  Confession  of  faith,  Covenant,  Form  of  admission,  or  Stand- 
ing Rules  may  not  be  altered,  except  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  at  an 
annual  meeting,  such  alteration  having  been  proposed  in  writing  at  a 
previous  business  meeting. 


D 

Preamble    and    Resolutions     Concerning    Charities, 
Adopted  November,    1841. 

Whereas,  The  design  of  a  Christian  Church,  as  stated  in  the  first 
declaration  of  this  Church,  is  the  enjoyment  of  Christian  ordinances 
and  the  maintenance  of  the  worship  of  God ;  and  whereas,  a  Congre- 
gational Church  possesses  no  power  to  compel  a  member  to  engage  in 
any  particular  department  of  Christian  labor;  and  whereas  there  are 
now  societies  to  which  Christians  may  unite  themselves  for  the  fur- 
therance of  all  works  of  Christian  benevolence  if  they  believe  that  their 
usefulness  will  be  thereby  promoted ;  and  whereas  we  have  in  this 
Church  members  who  are  connected  with  almost  all  the  great  religious 
charitable  societies,  who  may  see  to  the  interests  of  these  societies ;  and 
whereas  there  is  a  great  diversity  of  opinion  among  us  in  reference  to 
the  various  charitable  movements  of  the  day,  but  great  harmony  in 
regard  to  the  peculiar  and  special  design  of  the  Church,  which  harmony 

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might  be  interrupted,  as  it  has  been  in  other  churches,  by  any  effort  to 
co-operate  in  our  organized  capacity  with  other  societies.     Therefore, 

Resolved,  That  we  deem  it  expedient  in  our  action  as  a  Church  to 
confine  ourselves  to  that  design  set  forth  in  the  following  declarations, 
viz.,  The  design  of  a  Christian  Church  we  understand  to  be  the  enjoy- 
ment of  Christian  ordinances  and  the  maintenance  of  the  worship 
of  God. 

Resolved,  That  the  pastor  be  and  he  is  hereby  requested  to  bring 
before  the  congregation  the  claims  of  such  objects  of  Christian  Charity 
as  may  seem  to  him  best,  either  himself  or  by  the  employment  of  other 
persons. 

E 

Articles  of  Faith,  and  Covenant,  Adopted  February 
24,   1846  ;  Also  Standing  Rules. 

The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  deeming  it  expedient  to  revise 
the  "  Articles  of  Faith  "  and  "  Covenant "  adopted  at  the  organization 
of  said  Church,  and  such  revision  being  now  complete,  we,  the  mem- 
bers of  said  Church,  do  hereby  adopt  the  following  as  the  bond  of 
ecclesiastical  union,  expecting  to  find  the  same  faith  in  all  who  shall 
hereafter  unite  with  us,  viz. : 

Articles  of  Faith. 

We  believe  that  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments  are 
the  Word  of  God,  and  the  only  infallible  rule  of  faith  and  practice. 

And,  in  accordance  with  the  teachings  of  Scripture, 

We  believe  in  One  God,  subsisting  in  three  persons — the  Father,  the 
Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost;  eternal,  unchangeable,  and  omnipresent; 
infinite  in  power,  wisdom,  and  holiness;  the  Creator  and  Preserver  of 
all  things;  whose  purposes  and  providence  extend  to  all  events;  and 
who  exercises  a  righteous  moral  government  over  all  his  intelligent 
creatures : 

We  believe  that  man  was  originally  holy;  that  our  first  parents  dis- 
obeyed the  command  of  God ;  and  that,  in  consequence  of  their  apos- 
tacy,  all  their  descendants  do  also  transgress  his  Law,  and  come  under 
its  just  condemnation: 

We  believe  that  God  has  provided  a  way  of  salvation  for  all  man- 
kind; that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  having  taken  upon 
himself  our  nature,  has,  by  his  voluntary  sufferings  and  death,  made 
an  atonement  for  sin ;  and  that  everyone  who,  with  repentance  for  sin, 
believes  in  Christ,  will  be  pardoned,  justified,  and  saved  through  that 
faith  alone : 

We  believe  that  while  salvation  is  thus  freely  offered  to  all  men,  none 

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do  truly  repent  and  believe  in  Christ,  but  those  who,  according  to  the 
sovereign  grace  and  eternal  purpose  of  God,  are  renewed  and  sanctified 
by  his  Holy  Spirit  in  obeying  the  Gospel ;  and  that  none  who  are  thus 
renewed  and  chosen  to  eternal  life  will  be  permitted  so  to  fall  away  as 
finally  to  perish : 

We  believe  that  there  will  be  a  resurrection  of  all  the  dead ;  and  that 
God  will  hereafter  judge  all  men  and  award  to  them  eternal  happiness 
or  eternal  misery. 

Covenant. 

We  covenant  and  engage  as  fellow  Christians  of  one  faith,  and  par- 
takers of  the  same  hope  and  joy,  to  give  up  ourselves  unto  the  Lord 
for  the  observance  of  the  ordinances  of  Christ  together  in  the  same 
society;  and  to  unite  together  in  one  body  for  the  public  worship  of 
God  and  the  mutual  edification  one  of  another  in  the  fellowship  of  the 
Lord  Jesus ;  exhorting,  reproving,  comforting,  and  watching  over  each 
other  for  mutual  edification;  looking  for  that  blessed  hope  and  the 
glorious  appearing  of  the  great  God,  even  our  Saviour  Jesus  Christ, 
who  gave  himself  for  us  that  he  might  redeem  us  from  all  iniquity 
and  purify  unto  Himself  a  peculiar  people,  zealous  of  good  works. 

Thus,  also,  we  the  subscribers,  members  of  said  Church  at  the  time 
of  the  adoption  of  the  foregoing,  but  who  have  never  before  subscribed 
its  Articles  and  Covenant;  and  we  the  subscribers  who  have  been 
elected  as  members  of  said  Church  since  the  adoption  of  these  revised 
Articles  and  Covenant,  do  each  of  us  solemnly  declare  our  belief,  and 
consent  to  the  same,  promising  to  walk  in  conformity  thereto  and  to 
the  government  of  said  Church. 

Standing  Rules. 

I.  A  Christian  Church  we  understand  properly  to  be,  and  we  accord- 
ingly declare  this  Church  to  be,  an  association  of  professed  believers 
in  Christ  for  mutual  watchfulness,  for  the  enjoyment  of  Christian  or- 
dinances, and  the  maintenance  of  the  worship  of  God. 

II.  The  permanent  officers  of  this  Church  shall  be  a  Pastor  and  Dea- 
cons. The  officers  for  the  year  shall  be  a  Clerk  and  five  brethren  who, 
with  the  Pastor  and  Deacons,  shall  constitute  a  committee  for  the 
general  oversight  of  the  interests  of  the  Church.  This  committee  shall 
especially  provide  for  the  supply  of  the  pulpit  in  cases  of  emergency, 
they  shall  confer  with  persons  who  offer  themselves  for  admission,  and 
report  to  the  Church  the  cases  of  all  whom  they  deem  suitable  can- 
didates. They  may  also  transfer  a  prayer  meeting  to  another  evening 
of  the  same  week. 

III.  Officers,  permanent  and  for  the  year,  shall  be  elected  by  ballot, 
and  without  any  public  nomination,  unless  the  Church  shall  appoint  a 
committee  for  that  purpose. 

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IV.  The  Church  will  meet  for  prayer  and  conference  on  Tuesday- 
evening  of  each  week;  except  that  the  first  Monday  evening  of  each 
month  shall  be  substituted  for  Tuesday  evening  on  the  weeks  of  its 
occurrence.  The  Sacrament  of  the  Supper  will  be  administered  on  the 
first  Sabbath  of  January,  March,  May,  July,  September,  and  November ; 
and  the  prayer  meetings  next  preceding  these  Sabbaths  shall  be  also 
business  meetings,  at  which  any  matter  relating  to  the  interests  of  the 
Church  may  be  introduced ;  and  the  meeting  preceding  the  first  Sabbath 
in  March  shall  be  the  annual  meeting,  at  which  the  Committee  shall 
make  a  report  of  their  proceedings,  and  new  elections  shall  be  made. 
The  Clerk  shall  call  special  meetings  for  business  by  causing  a  notice 
to  be  read  from  the  pulpit  on  the  Sabbath,  upon  the  requisition  of  any 
ten  brethren,  presented  to  him  in  writing. 

V.  Members  will  be  admitted  upon  regular  business  meetings  only. 
Candidates  shall  be  reported  to  the  Church  at  least  two  weeks,  and 
propounded  to  the  congregation  at  least  one  week,  before  the  business 
meeting  at  which  their  cases  are  to  be  acted  on.  They  shall  become 
members  by  election,  and  signing  the  articles  of  faith  and  covenant, 
and  (those  who  have  not  done  so  before)  by  making  a  public  profession. 

VI.  It  is  expected  that  members  on  removing  will  ask  for  letters  of 
dismission  and  recommendation.  Requests  for  such  letters  may  be 
announced  at  the  weekly  prayer  meeting  or  lecture ;  and  if,  at  the  end 
of  one  week,  no  objection  has  been  made  to  the  Clerk,  he  shall  issue 
the  customary  certificate. 

VII.  All  questions  shall  be  determined  by  a  majority  of  the  male 
members  present  on  the  occasion ;  except  that  the  articles  of  faith, 
covenant,  form  of  admission,  or  standing  rules  may  not  be  altered  but 
by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  at  an  annual  meeting,  such  alteration  having 
been  proposed  in  writing  at  a  previous  business  meeting. 


F 

Extract    from    the    Resolutions  Adopted    by    the 
Church  May   13,    1S51,  and  April  26,    1853. 

"  The  names  of  members  who  have  been  absent  for  one  year,  of 
whose  residence  or  spiritual  condition  the  Church  cannot,  after  proper 
effort,  obtain  information,  shall  be  entered  upon  a  separate  list  to  be 
kept  by  the  Clerk,  and  to  be  called  the  '  Absentee  List.' 

"  The  names  upon  this  list  shall  be  publicly  read  three  times  during 
the  year,  at  each  alternate  Preparatory  Lecture,  and  the  list  shall  be 
reviewed  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Church,  or  at  such  other  time 
as  the  Church  shall  designate. 

"  At  the  end  of  one  year  from  the  time  the  name  of  any  member  is 

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placed  upon  this  list,  if  the  Church  has  been  unable  to  obtain  informa- 
tion of  that  member,  it  shall  become  the  duty  of  the  Church  to  withdraw 
its  watch  and  care  over  such  member,  thus  excluding  him  or  her  from 
its  fellowship  for  neglect  of  ordinance  or  breach  of  covenant,  until  such 
time  as  he  or  she  may  appear  before  the  Church  and  give  satisfactory 
reasons  for  his  or  her  absence  and  delinquency." 


G 

Conditions  of  Membership  in  the  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle Society,  Adopted  March  2,    1855. 

First. — Resolved,  That  payment  of  pew-rent,  or  pew-tax,  or  regular 
contributions  to  the  boxes  upon  the  Sabbath,  shall  be  considered  the 
usual  and  customary  mode  of  contributing  to  the  support  of  this  Society. 

Second. — Resolved,  That  any  person  intending  to  contribute  to  the 
support  of  this  Society  through  the  contribution  boxes  upon  the  Sab- 
bath, as  specified  in  the  first  resolution,  and  for  the  purpose  of  qualifying 
himself  to  vote  at  any  election  held  in  this  Society,  shall,  in  order  to 
be  judged  a  regular  contributor,  make,  from  time  to  time  when  in  at- 
tendance on  Divine  Worship  in  this  Society,  such  contribution  as  shall 
in  the  aggregate  each  year  meet  the  approval  of  his  own  judgment,  but 
every  such  contribution  should  be  accompanied  with  the  name  of  the 
contributor,  and  must,  if  doubted,  be  acknowledged  by  a  certificate  of 
the  Clerk  of  the  Society  and  an  entry  on  his  register;  or  it  must,  if 
doubted,  be  proven  at  the  time  of  election  by  evidence  equally  satis- 
factory to  the  judges  or  inspectors  of  such  election;  and  without  such 
certificate  of  the  Clerk,  or  evidence  equally  satisfactory  to  the  judges 
or  inspectors  of  election,  no  person  shall  be  deemed  as  having  con- 
tributed to  the  support  of  this  Society  by  gifts  received  in  contribution 
boxes. 

Third. — Resolved,  That  any  person  desiring  to  become  a  member  of 
this  Society,  by  reason  of  his  contributions  to  the  boxes,  shall  notify 
the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  in  writing,  of  such  intention,  stating 
his  name  and  residence,  and  if  the  Trustees  shall,  within  four  weeks 
from  such  notice  to  the  Clerk,  decline  to  receive  such  applicant,  then 
his  contribution  shall  cease  its  aforesaid  effect,  and  notice  shall  be  given 
him  by  the  Clerk  personally  or  left  at  the  place  of  residence  so  specified. 
And  all  applications  so  rejected  shall  be  laid  before  the  Society  at  its 
first  meeting  thereafter,  and  if  a  majority  of  the  members  then  present 
shall  vote  to  confirm  the  action  of  the  Trustees,  then  such  rejection 
shall  be  confirmed. 

Fourth. — Resolved,  That  the  usages  and  customs  of  the  Society  in  the 
matter  of  such  contributions  be  established  and  ordained  according  to 
the  above  resolutions,  and  not  otherwise. 

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Fifth. — Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  be 
required  to  keep  a  register  of  the  members  of  this  Society,  according  to 
the  statute,  and  that  a  copy  of  said  register  be  left  in  the  office  of  the 
Sexton  for  the  inspection  of  members. 

Sixth. — Resolved,  That  every  male  of  lawful  age  shall  be  entitled  to 
vote  who  shall  have  been  a  stated  attendant  on  Divine  Worship  in  this 
congregation  for  at  least  one  year  previous  to  the  election,  and  who 
shall  have  contributed  to  the  support  of  this  Society,  according  to  the 
usages  and  customs  thereof  as  established  and  ordained  by  the  afore- 
said resolutions,  and  not  otherwise. 

Seventh. — Resolved,  That  in  connection  with  the  regular  legal  notice 
of  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Society,  the  aforesaid  resolutions,  or  a 
statement  containing  the  substance  thereof,  be  read,  and  that  all  persons 
who  desire  to  become  members  of  the  Society  be  requested  to  signify 
their  intention  to  the  Clerk  prior  to  the  Annual  Meeting. 

Eighth. — Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  this  Society  shall  be  present 
at  its  elections,  in  order  by  his  register  to  test  the  qualifications  of 
electors  if  questioned. 

Ninth. — Resolved,  That  two  Deacons  (or  if  there  be  none  present, 
then  two  members  of  the  Society,  to  be  nominated  by  a  majority  of  the 
members  present)  must  preside  at  the  elections. 

Tenth. — Resolved,  That  the  Inspectors  of  Election,  as  prescribed  by 
statute,  shall  preside  in  front  of  the  audience  with  a  box  for  the  recep- 
tion of  ballots,  and  as  each  ballot  is  offered  the  name  of  the  individual 
offering  such  ballot  shall  be  called  aloud,  and  if  in  the  judgment  of  the 
Inspectors  he  is  a  duly  qualified  member  his  ballot  shall  be  received. 

Eleventh. — Resolved,  That  no  person  shall  be  allowed  to  vote,  by 
ballot  or  otherwise,  at  any  meeting  of  the  Society  who  does  not  possess 
the  statute  qualifications,  and  who  has  not  contributed  to  the  support 
of  this  Society  in  the  manner  and  form  ordained  by  the  foregoing 
resolutions. 


H 

Among  Joseph  P.  Thompson's    published   works 
are  the  following: 

Abraham  Lincoln :  His  Life  and  Its  Lessons.    Pp.  38.    New  York :  1865. 

Address  on  the  Life  and  Character  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Abbott  Bridgman. 
Pp.  11.    New  York:    1871. 

America  as  Seen  from  Europe :  A  Look  Homeward  Across  the  Sea : 
Thanksgiving  Address.     Pp.  27.     Bremen :    1874. 

American  Comments  on  European  Questions,  International  and  Relig- 
ious.   8vo.    Boston :  1854. 

The  Believer's  Refuge.     1857. 

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Broadway  Tabernacle  Church:  Its  History  and  Work,  with  the  Docu- 
ments Relating  to  the  Resignation  of  its  Pastor.  Pp.  51.  New 
York:  1871. 

Bryant  Gray.     1863. 

Christ,  the  Church,  and  the  Creed :  Letter  to  Professor  Dr.  A.  Weber. 
Pp.  7.    Berlin:  1877. 

The  Christian  Graces:  A  Series  of  Lectures  on  2  Peter  i.  5-12.  i6mo. 
New  York:  1859. 

Christianity  and  Emancipation.    Pp.  86.     New  York:  1863. 

Church  and  State  in  the  United  States,  with  an  Appendix  on  the  Ger- 
man Population.     i6mo.     Boston :  1873. 

The  College  as  a  Religious  Institution :  Address  before  the  Western 
College  Society.     Pp.  34.     New  York:  1859. 

Commemorative  Discourse  at  a  Memorial  Service  for  300,000  Union 
Soldiers.     Pp.  28.     New  York:  1866. 

The  Congregational  Polity  and  a  Biblical  Theology:  Discourse  before 
the  Congregational  Board  of  Publication.     Pp.  26.     Boston:  i860. 

Contest  with  Ultramontanism  in  Germany.     Pp.  36.     London :  1874. 

Duties  of  the  Christian  Citizen.     Pp.  24.     New  York:  1848. 

The  Early  Witnesses;  or,  Piety  and  Preaching  of  the  Middle  Ages. 
24mo.     New  York:  1857. 

Egypt,  Past  and  Present.     1866. 

The  Egyptian  Doctrine  of  a  Future  State.    Pp.  43. 

"  Egyptology." — Smith's  Bible  Dictionary. 

An  Essay  toward  Principles  of  International  Law  to  Govern  the  Inter- 
course of  Christian  with  Non-Christian  Peoples.  Pp.  20.  Berlin : 
1876. 

The  Faithful  Preacher:  Discourse  Commemorative  of  the  Late  Dirck 
C.  Lansing,  D.D.     Pp.  54.     New  York:  1857. 

Final  Cause :  A  Critique  of  the  Failure  of  Paley  and  the  Fallacy  of 
Hume.     Pp.  22.     London,  n.d. 

The  Fugitive  Slave  Law  Tried  by  the  Old  and  New  Testament.  Pp.  35. 
New  York :  1850. 

Habitual  Thankfulness :    Discourse.     Pp.  23.     New  Haven :  1840. 

Hints  to  Employers.     1847,  1851. 

The  Holy  Comforter.     1866. 

Home  Worship. 

How  to  Build  a  Nation:   Discourse. 

Implements  of  the  Stone  Age  in  a  Primitive  Demarcation  Between  Man 
and  Other  Animals.    Pp.  9.     1877. 

The  Inalienable  Possession.    Pp.  48.    New  York :  1856. 

The  Last  Sabbath  in  the  Broadway  Tabernacle:  Historical  Discourse. 
Pp.  51.    New  York:  1857. 

Lectures  to  Young  Men.  (Second  edition  of  "  Young  Men  Admon- 
ished.") 

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Lewdness  and  Murder :  Discourse  Suggested  by  the  Late  Murder.  Pp. 
24.    New  Haven  :  1845. 

Love  and  Penalty;  or,  Eternal  Punishment  Consistent  with  the  Father- 
hood of  God.     i6mo.     New  York:  i860. 

Life  of  Christ  for  the  Young.     1875. 

Man  in  Genesis,  and  in  Geology;  or,  The  Biblical  Account  of  Man's 
Creation  Tested  by  Scientific  Theories  of  his  Origin  and  Antiquity. 
i2mo.     New  York:  1870. 

Manning  and  Germany.     Pp.  8.     Glasgow :  1874. 

Man's  Completeness  in  Christ:  Sermon  at  the  Installation  of  Rev. 
William  B.  Clarke.     Pp.  40.     New  Haven:  1863. 

Memoir  of  David  Hale.     8vo.     New  York:  1850. 

Memoir  of  David  Tappan  Stoddard.     i2mo.     Boston :  A.  T.  S. 

Memoir  of  the  Late  Timothy  Dwight.     i6mo.     New  Haven :   1844. 

The  Moral  Unity  of  the  Human  Race :  Sermon  at  the  Ordination  of 
Luther  Halsey  Gulick,  M.D.     Pp.  71.     New  York:  1851. 

Paganized  Ecclesiasticism,  the  Chief  Antagonist  of  the  Modern  Mis- 
sionary :   Address  before  the  Society  of  Inquiry,  Andover.     Pp.  32. 

1854. 
La  Paix  Consideree  Comme  Berceau  de  la  Chevalerie.    Pp.29.    Geneve: 

1874. 

Paparchy  and  Nationality.     Pp.  42.     1875. 

Peace  Through  Victory :  Thanksgiving  Sermon.  Pp.  46.  New  York : 
1864. 

The  Permanence  of  Christianity,  in  the  Intention  of  its  Founder :  Ser- 
mon before  the  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  New  York  and 
Brooklyn.     Pp.  57.     New  York:  1865. 

Photographic  Views  of  Egypt,  Past  and  Present.    i2mo.    Glasgow:  1854. 

The  President's  Fast:  Discourse  upon  our  National  Crimes  and  Follies. 
Pp.  26.    New  York  :  186 1. 

Revolution  against  Free  Government  not  a  Right,  but  a  Crime:  Ad- 
dress before  the  Union  League  Club.     Pp.  46.     New  York :  1864. 

The  Right  and  Necessity  of  Inflicting  the  Punishment  of  Death  for 
Murder:    Sermons.     Pp.  54.     New  Haven:  1842. 

The  Sergeant's  Memorial.     1863. 

The  same,  abridged. 

Sermon  at  Dedication  of  Broadway  Tabernacle.     Pp.  26.     New  York : 

1859- 
Shall  England  Side  with  Russia? — Letter  to  the  Committee  of  Peace 

Society.    Pp.  4.     Boston :  1876. 
Statement  to  the  Evangelical  Alliance  in  Behalf  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M. 

Pp.  4.     Berlin :  1879. 
Stray  Meditations.     1852. 

Teachings  of  the  New  Testament  on  Slavery.    Pp.  52.    New  York:  1856. 
Test-hour  of   Popular   Liberty  and  Republican   Government.     Pp.   30. 

New  Haven:  1862. 

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Theatrical  Amusements :    Discourse  on  the  Character  and  Influence  of 

the  Theatre.     Pp.  40.     New  York :  1847. 
The  Theocratic  Principle ;   or,  Religion  the  Bond  of  the  Republic :    Ser- 
mon in  Behalf  of  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society.    Pp.  27. 

New  York:  1868. 
The  Theology  of  Christ  from  His  Own  Words.     i2mo.     New  York: 

1872. 
The  United  States  as  a  Nation :   Lectures  on  the  Centennial  of  American 

Independence.     i2mo.     Boston :  1877. 
The  Uses  of  Affliction  to  the  Ministers  of  Christ:    Sermon.     Pp.    16. 

New  York:  1847. 
Vice  Progressive :    Sermon  to  Young  Men.     Pp.  24.     New  York :  1846. 
The  Word  of  Life  the  Law  of  Missions:    Sermon  before  the  A.  B.  C. 

F.  M.     Pp.  31.     Boston:  1867. 
The  Workman :    His  False  Friends  and  his  True  Friends. 
Young    Men    Admonished.      (First    edition    of    "  Lectures    to    Young 

Men.")     1846. 
Contributions  to  the  New  Englander,  North  American  Review,  Bib- 

liothcca  Sacra,  Journal  of  the  American  Geological  and  Statistical 

Society,  Kitto's  Cyclopedia  of  Biblical  Literature. 


I 

Some  Appreciations  of  Joseph  P.  Thompson. 

Extract  from  Resolutions  adopted  by  the  New  York  and  Brooklyn 
Association  in  Conference  with  the  Bedford  Congregational  Church, 
November  1,  1871,  on  motion  of  Rev.  William  I.  Budington : 

"  Resolved,  That  this  Association  acknowledges  with  grateful  recog- 
nition his  long  continued  and  valuable  services  in  the  support  and 
vindication  of  our  Congregational  Christianity  in  the  days  of  its  weak- 
ness and  infancy  here,  and  attributes  much  of  its  present  extension  and 
influence  to  his  indefatigable  labors  in  its  behalf. 

"  Resolved,  secondly,  That  in  the  conscientious  studies  which  have 
enlarged  our  Christian  literature,  in  the  particular  labor  which  con- 
tributed to  the  support  of  our  Nation's  life  in  its  great  conflict,  and  in 
the  earnest  discussions  which  vindicated  the  cause  of  Freedom  against 
Slavery  in  the  past,  Dr.  Thompson  bears  among  us  a  record  and  a 
remembrance  honorable  both  to  him  and  the  cause  of  our  Lord." 

Part  of  the  minute  put  upon  record  of  the  Conference  of  the  Congre- 
gational Churches  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn  and  Vicinity,  November 
9,  1871 : 

"  But  the  influence  and  usefulness  of  Dr.  Thompson  have  not  been 
limited  to  the  duties  of  his  pastorate.  Through  the  public  press  and 
in  public  assemblies,  by  voice  and  pen,  the  churches  of  our  faith  and 

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order  have  felt  and  recognized  his  leadership.  The  Nation  in  its  hour 
of  extremest  peril,  the  Christian  soldiers  who  went  forth  from  our 
homes,  and  from  our  sanctuaries,  to  the  fatigues  and  perils  of  the  con- 
flict have  abundant  reason  to  remember,  and  do  gratefully  recall,  his 
words  of  cheer  and  courage,  his  unfailing  sympathy  and  help,  his  per- 
sonal ministry  among  the  sick  and  wounded,  and  that  yet  greater  gift 
— which  God  required  of  him — in  the  bearing  of  that  common  burden 
in  that  dark  and  awful  hour. 

"  The  Christian  world  has  been  his  debtor  for  the  learning  and  labor 
which  he  has  brought  to  the  interpretation  and  illustration  of  the  Holy 
Scripture?,  and  to  the  practical  enforcement  of  the  truth  of  God. 

"  But  we  in  these  churches  and  in  this  Conference  make  mention 
especially  of  the  loss  which  we  are  suffering  by  his  removal  from  our 
councils  and  from  personal  participation  in  our  fellowship.  For  these 
many  years  we  have  been  used  to  look  to  him  as  not  only  the  Bishop 
of  our  Metropolitan  Church,  but  as,  also,  and,  therefore,  by  right  of 
position,  and  by  right  of  his  singular  gifts  and  abilities,  our  chief  coun- 
sellor in  matters  concerning  the  welfare  of  the  churches.  During  these 
years  in  which  the  church  under  his  pastorate  has  grown  to  be  mater 
et  caput  ecclesiarum  in  this  metropolitan  region,  no  face  has  been  more 
familiar  in  our  meetings  than  his.  We  have  found  in  him  a  strong  and 
able  leader,  a  wise  and  faithful  counsellor,  a  generous  and  sympathetic 
friend.  We  testify  our  sense  of  the  debt  we  owe  him  for  his  fidelity 
to  the  great  fact  and  principle,  so  vital  to  our  polity,  so  essential  to  our 
Congregational  order — the  fellowship  of  the  churches." 

Part  of  the  minute  adopted  by  the  Congregational  Club  of  New  York, 
November  3,  1879 : 

"  Resolved,  That  we  hold  in  deep  respect  the  memory  of  our  late 
brother  as  we  recall  his  multifarious  learning,  his  unceasing  and  pro- 
digious activity,  and  his  intense  passion  to  be  of  service  to  Christian 
learning,  Christian  liberty,  and  the  spirituality  of  the  Church  of  Christ. 

"  Resolved,  That  the  example  he  has  set  before  us  of  a  broad  brother- 
hood with  all  who  love  the  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  merits  our  gratitude 
and  imitation  as  members  of  this  brotherhood  of  churches. 

"  Resolved,  That  by  the  services  which  his  sensitive  and  overmaster- 
ing patriotism  impelled  him  to  perform  for  his  native  country,  not  only 
while  he  lived  here  with  us.  but  also  after  he  found  it  his  duty  to  reside 
on  the  Continent  of  Europe,  he  has  deserved  well,  not  only  of  our 
Christian  Churches,  but  of  the  whole  nation." 

Extract  from  commemorative  address  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  W. 
Bellows,  November  10,  1879,  before  the  Union  League  Club,  New 
York  City: 

"  It  is  not  as  a  scholar,  as  a  pastor,  that  the  Union  League  Club  is 
called  to  consider  him ;  but  as  a  citizen  who  has  deserved  well  of  his 
country,  a  patriot,  and  a  man  of  honor  and  principle,  with  whom  we 

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were  associated  in  time  of  public  danger.  The  two  churches  of  which 
he  was  in  turn  pastor ;  the  periodicals  to  which  he  was  an  indefatigable 
contributor;  his  peers  in  Egyptology,  and  his  numerous  personal  friends 
will  not  fail  to  do  him  justice  in  bearing  testimony  to  the  value  of  his 
labors  and  the  charm  of  his  manly,  wholesome  disposition.  But  the 
part  of  his  life  and  character  of  which  the  Union  League  Club  was  the 
nearest  witness,  and  claims  as  largely  its  own,  was  the  influential, 
brave,  and  eloquent  share  he  took  as  a  citizen  and  a  Christian  minister 
in  the  time  of  the  great  rebellion.  What  should  we  have  done  in  crush- 
ing the  rebellion  if_only  hired  and  professional  soldiers  had  been  sent 
to  meet  it?  We  had  to  create  a  solemn  sense  of  duty  to  the  country, 
to  persuade  the  women  of  the  justice  and  seriousness  of  a  cause  that 
demanded  their  husbands,  sons,  and  lovers,  to  hush  the  scruples  of  the 
peace  societies,  and  to  cheer  the  people  in  times  of  defeat  and  terrible 
delay.  Be  it  remembered,  our  foe  had  made  religion  of  her  cause. 
Were  we  to  go  into  a  war  which  was  made  religious  on  one  side  without 
the  support  of  our  religious  leaders  on  the  other  side — and  that  the 
side  of  Liberty,  Emancipation,  National  Union,  and  Republican  insti- 
tutions? Everybody  knows  what  the  religious  leaders  of  the  North  did. 
A  few  bravely  led  off,  and  were  followed  by  the  rest;  and  among  the 
most  stalwart  and  zealous  of  them  was  Joseph  P.  Thompson.  Always 
an  anti-slavery  man,  too  near  Dr.  Bacon  not  to  be  courageous,  too  near 
Dr.  Taylor  of  New  Haven  not  to  have  a  conscience  exercised  to  dis- 
cern good  and  evil,  too  near  President  Woolsey  not  to  know  inter- 
national law  and  the  duties  of  citizenship,  he  threw  himself  into  the 
war  with  whole-souled  conviction." 


7 

Publications  by  Dr.  Taylor. 

Life  Truths :   A  volume  of  sermons.    Liverpool 1862 

The  Miracles,  Helps  to  Faith,  not  Hindrances.     (Edinburgh) 1865 

The  Lost  Found,  and  the  Wanderer  Welcomed 1870 

Memoir  of  the  Rev.  Matthew  Dickie.     (Bristol.) 1872 

Prayer  and  Business 1874 

David,  King  of  Israel 1878 

Elijah,  the  Prophet 1876 

The  Ministry  of  the  Word.     (Yale  Lectures.) 1876 

Songs  in  the  Night 1877 

Peter,  the  Apostle 1877 

Daniel,  the  Beloved 1878 

Moses,  the  Lawgiver 1879 

The  Gospel  Miracles  in  their  Relation  to  Christ  and  Christianity. 

(Princeton  Lectures.) 18S0 

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The  Limitations  of  Life,  and  Other  Sermons 1880 

Death  in  the  Sight  of  All  the  People 1881 

Paul,  the  Missionary   1882 

Contrary  Winds,  and  Other  Sermons   1883 

Jesus  at  the  Well  1884 

John  Knox :    A  Biography  1885 

Joseph,  the  Prime  Minister  1886 

Parables  of  our  Saviour  Expounded  and  Illustrated  1886 

Shut  In  1887 

The  Scottish   Pulpit,   from  the  Reformation   to  the  Present  Day. 

(Yale  Lectures.)    1887 

Miracles  of  our  Saviour  Expounded 1890 

The  Christian  in  Society 1891 

Ruth  the  Gleaner  and  Esther  the  Queen 1891 

Good  Character  189? 

The  Boy  Jesus,  and  Other  Sermons  1893 

The  Faithful  Saying:     To  the  Working  Classes.     Huyler's  Circus 

Royal,  Liverpool 1858 

The  Song  of  Salvation.     (Liverpool.) 1859 

Address  on  the  Occasion  of  the  Laying  of  the  Foundation  Stone  of 

Seaman's  Orphanage.     (Liverpool.) 

What  the  Bible  Says  about  Giving American  Tract  Society 

Seed  Sowing American  Tract  Society 

The  Christian  Serving  his  Generation National  Temperance  Society 

Difficulties  and  Advantages  of  Bible  Translation :    Sermon  before 

the  American  Bible  Society 1877 

Address  at  a   Complimentary  Dinner  given  to  Dr.   Crichton   and  Dr. 

Graham  by  the  Representatives  of  the  Lancashire  Presbytery. 
Sermon:    Not  Ashamed  of  the  Gospel.     American   Home   Missionary 

Society. 
The  Relation  of  Home  Missions  to  the  Prosperity  of  the  Nation  and 

the  Conversion  of  the  World.    American  Home  Missionary  Society. 
Debtor  and  Creditor.     Distributed  to  its  Policy-holders  by  the  Mutual 

Life  Insurance  Company. 
Is  the  Young  Man  Absalom  Safe?    Before  the  Young  Men's  Social  and 

Benevolent  Society,  Fifth  Avenue  Church. 
Memorial  to  J.  M.  Manning,  D.D. 
Memorial  to  Professor  Lyman  S.  Atwater,  D.D.,  LL.D. 


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K 

Dr.  Taylor's   Resignation. 

"  New  York,  2y  October,  1892. 
"  To  the  members  of  the  Church  and  Society  assembling  in  the  Broad- 
way Tabernacle,  New  York  City : 

"  My  Dear  People  : — The  leave  of  absence,  so  tenderly  granted  to 
me  in  my  need  by  you,  is  now  so  nearly  at  an  end  that  it  becomes  me 
to  let  you  know  what  is  the  state  of  my  health  now,  and  what  are  my 
intentions  as  to  the  future. 

"  By  the  blessing  of  God  on  the  means  which,  at  the  suggestion  of 
my  skilful  physician,  have  been  used,  I  am  now  far  better  than,  at  one 
time,  I  ever  expected  to  be.  All  through  the  summer  I  have  been  mak- 
ing steady  progress  toward  health;  not  much  when  looked  at  from 
day  to  day,  but  quite  marvellous  when  tested  month  by  month,  and, 
taken  as  a  whole,  giving  sure  promise,  humanly  speaking,  of  ultimate 
perfect  restoration. 

"  But  experience  tells  me  that  the  process  of  recovery  must  be  slow. 
At  the  very  best  it  will  take  months  yet,  perhaps  even  a  year  or  more, 
even  if  nothing  untoward  should  occur,  before  I  reach  the  goal  to 
which  I  am  now  so  eagerly  looking  forward.  And  even  if  I  do  reach 
that  ultimately,  I  am  painfully  conscious  that  I  can  never  hope  to  be 
again  the  man  that  I  have  been.  One  cannot  pass  through  such  an 
illness  as  I  have  had  without  losing  that  which  he  can  never  regain, 
especially  if  his  vocation  be  that  of  a  preacher  of  the  Gospel.  For  it 
leaves  behind  it  the  constant  liability  to  a  return,  and  the  consciousness 
of  that  takes  away  from  him  that  utter  absence  of  concern  for  self  on 
which  the  effectiveness  of  speech  so  largely  depends. 

"  In  these  circumstances  I  am  compelled  to  face  the  question  what 
my  duty  to  the  Church  is,  and,  after  long,  anxious,  prayerful,  I  may 
even  add  tearful,  consideration  I  have  reached  the  conclusion  that,  in 
justice  to  you,  no  less  than  in  consideration  for  myself,  and  out  of 
regard  to  the  glory  of  the  Master  whom  we  are  both  seeking  to  serve, 
I  ought  to  place  in  your  hands  the  resignation  of  my  pastoral  charge. 

"  I  can  never  fully  tell  you  what  it  has  cost  me  to  come  to  this  de- 
cision. I  loved  to  preach.  Some  of  the  happiest  experiences  of  my 
life  have  been  in  the  pulpit.  I  have  marked  with  the  deepest  interest 
the  growth  and  deepening  and  mellowing  of  Christian  character  in  those 
who  statedly  waited  on  my  ministry;  and  the  thrill  of  joy  that  tingles 
through  one's  heart  when  he  is  instrumental  in  leading  a  soul  to  the 
Saviour  has  to  be  experienced  to  be  known.  It  was  a  great  happiness, 
too,  to  visit  you  from  house  to  house,  to  grasp  your  hands  in  affec- 
tionate greeting,  and  to  help  you,  as  I  might,  with  words  of  counsel 
and  of  cheer.  Not  only  in  regular  visitation  have  I  known  your  homes, 
I  have  been  with  you  in  your  times  of  sickness  and  bereavement,  and 

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by  the  fellowship  of  such  seasons,  we  have  been  welded  together  in 
the  closest  affection ;  while  your  kindness  to  me  at  all  times,  but  espe- 
cially during  the  weeks  when  my  illness  was  the  most  critical,  will  be 
remembered  by  me  with  gratitude,  as  long  as  memory  lasts.  My  feel- 
ings, therefore,  are  all  opposed  to  my  taking  the  step  which  I  have 
mentioned,  but  my  judgment  is  fully  convinced  of  its  wisdom. 

"  So,  sadly  and  with  undiminished  affection  for  you  all,  among  whom 
I  have  preached  the  Gospel  of  the  Kingdom  of  God  during  twenty  busy, 
happy  and  useful  years,  but  with  the  concurrence  of  my  nearest  and 
dearest  friends,  with  the  approval  of  my  own  judgment  and  with  what 
seems  to  me  to  be  the  guidance  of  the  Spirit  of  God,  I  return  into  your 
hands  the  charge  with  which  I  was  intrusted  on  the  ninth  of  April,  1872. 
"  Believe  me 

"  Yours  faithfully, 

"Wm.  M.  Taylor." 


L 

Minute  adopted  by  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  at  a  special  meet- 
ing, November  2,  1892 : 

"  With  the  deepest  regret  we  receive  and  accept  the  resignation  of 
our  beloved  pastor;  and  we  would  express  our  sense  of  our  own  per- 
sonal loss,  while  we  sympathize  with  him  in  this  trial  which  withdraws 
him  from  the  active  service  to  which  his  life  has  been  devoted. 

"  He  came  to  us  from  a  distant  land,  another  denomination,  and 
almost  a  stranger  here,  but  the  fellowship  of  Christian  faith  and  Chris- 
tian service  at  once  made  him  and  his  household  at  one  with  us  by 
close  and  tender  ties,  and  he  has  loyally  led  us  in  the  administration  of 
this  church  according  to  its  own  polity  and  discipline.  Very  deeply 
engraved  in  our  hearts  is  the  record  of  his  ministrations  in  our  pulpit, 
our  social  worship,  and  our  homes.  We  shall  never  forget  that  he  has 
taught  us  to  understand  the  scripture;  he  has  explained  to  us  its  mean- 
ing; he  has  helped  us  to  see  the  significance  and  importance  of  the 
Old  Testament,  and  its  relation  to  the  New ;  and,  above  all,  he  has 
shown  us  in  the  clearest  light  the  revelation  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour 
Jesus  Christ,  in  the  Sacred  Word.  And  hereafter  when  in  reading  its 
pages  we  come  upon  one  passage  and  another,  and  another,  we  shall 
constantly  remember  him. 

"  This  church,  thus  nourished  by  his  ministry,  has  much  more  than 
doubled  its  members,  its  strength,  and  its  benevolence.  Many  of  his 
instructions  from  the  pulpit  have  gone  forth  in  other  lands.  During 
all  these  twenty  years  he  has  constantly  inspired  us  with  a  growing 
enthusiasm  for  carrying  out  the  last  great  precept  of  Christ  to  go  into 
all  the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  every  creature;  and  he  himself 
has  led  us  and  gone  far  in  advance  of  us,  in  every  effort  in  aid  of  Home 

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and  Foreign  Missions.  In  serving  this  church  he  has  thus  exerted  a 
world-wide  influence. 

"  In  all  this  he  has,  unconsciously  to  himself,  perhaps,  fulfilled  the 
purpose  which  he  expressed  in  coming  to  us  '  to  hide  himself  behind 
the  Saviour,'  and  has  taught  us  to  listen  as  '  hearing  a  voice,  but  seeing 
no  man.' 

"  For  him,  we  pray  that  God  will  long  continue  him  in  life,  and 
bless  him  with  strength,  comfort  and  happiness,  and  relieve  his  be- 
loved household  from  all  anxiety  and  solicitude.  And  for  ourselves 
we  trust  that  God  will  perpetuate  in  our  hearts  the  lessons  of  vital 
faith  we  have  received,  and  make  this  church  bear  such  increasing  fruit 
in  the  future  as  will  be  worthy  of  the  planting  and  watering  which  have 
been  the  consecrated  and  self-sacrificing  work  of  this  long  and  happy 
pastorate." 

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Admission  of  Members,   Articles  and 
Rules  of  the   Church  and  Society. 

(From  the  Year  Book  for  1901) 

ADMISSION    OF   MEMBERS. 

CREED. 

As  a  church  of  Jesus  Christ,  associated  in  accordance  with  the  teach- 
ings of  the  New  Testament,  for  the  public  worship  of  God,  for  the 
observance  of  gospel  sacraments  and  ordinances,  for  mutual  edification 
and  encouragement  in  the  Christian  life,  and  for  the  advancement  of 
the  Redeemer's  kingdom,  we  declare  our  union  in  faith  and  love  with 
all  who  love  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

Receiving  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments  as  the 
word  of  God,  and  the  only  infallible  rule  of  religious  faith  and  practice, 
we  confess  our  faith  in  the  one  living  and  true  God,  revealed  as  the 
Father,  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost;  the  Creator  and  Preserver  of 
all  things,  whose  purposes  and  providence  extend  to  all  events,  and 
who  exercises  a  righteous  government  over  all  His  creatures. 

We  believe  in  the  universal  sinfulness  and  ruin  of  our  race,  since 
"  by  one  man  sin  entered  into  the  world,  and  death  by  sin,  and  so  death 
passed  upon  all  men,  for  that  all  have  sinned." 

We  believe  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  having  taken 
upon  Himself  our  nature,  has  by  His  obedience,  sufferings,  and  death 
provided  a  way  of  salvation  for  all  mankind ;  and  that  through  faith  in 
His  name  whosoever  will  may  be  saved. 

We  believe  that  although  salvation  is  offered  freely  to  all,  they  only 
repent  and  believe  in  Christ  who,  in  thus  obeying  the  gospel,  are  re- 

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generated  by  the  Holy  Spirit ;    and  that  all  who  are  thus  regenerated 
are  "  kept  by  the  power  of  God,  through  faith,  unto  salvation." 

We  believe  that  there  is  a  day  appointed  in  which  God  will  raise  the 
dead  and  judge  the  world;  that  the  wicked  shall  "  go  away  into  ever- 
lasting punishment,  and  the  righteous  into  life  eternal." 

CONFESSION    OF    PERSONS    RECEIVED    UPON    CONFESSION    OF    THEIR    FAITH. 

Dearly  beloved,  you  have  come  to  confess  Christ  before  men,  and 
publicly  to  dedicate  yourselves  to  God.  You  avow  your  personal  sense 
of  the  love  of  God  in  the  forgiveness  of  your  sins,  and  you  believe  that 
the  Holy  Spirit  has  wrought  in  you  that  change  of  heart  by  which  you 
are  enabled  to  put  your  trust  for  salvation  wholly  in  Christ  and  to 
enter  upon  a  new  life.  Trusting  that  He  who  hears  and  answers  prayer 
will  uphold  and  strengthen  you,  you  do  give  yourselves  to  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  to  be  His  disciples,  receiving  Him  as  your  only  Priest  and  Pro- 
pitiation, your  great  Teacher,  Lawgiver,  and  King;  you  dedicate  your- 
selves to  God  as  the  object  of  your  highest  love,  and  to  His  service  as 
your  highest  joy. 

In  this  solemn  consecration  you  do  now  join  with  us  in  the  following 
confession :  I  believe  in  God  the  Father  Almighty,  Maker  of  heaven 
and  earth,  and  in  Jesus  Christ,  His  only  Son,  our  Lord ;  who  was 
conceived  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  born  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  suffered  under 
Pontius  Pilate,  was  crucified,  dead  and  buried;  the  third  day  He  rose 
from  the  dead;  He  ascended  into  heaven,  and  sitteth  at  the  right  hand 
of  God  the  Father  Almighty;  from  thence  He  shall  come  to  judge  the 
quick  and  the  dead. 

I  believe  in  the  Holy  Ghost;  the  holy  catholic  church;  the  communion 
of  saints;  the  forgiveness  of  sins;  the  resurrection  of  the  body;  and 
the  life  everlasting.    Amen. 

[The  following  shall  be  omitted  if  none  have  been  baptized.] 

You  who  in  childhood  were  admitted  by  baptism  to  a  place  in  the 
covenant  of  God,  do  now,  for  yourselves,  assume  its  full  obligations 
and  privileges. 

[The  following  shall  be  omitted  if  all  have  been  baptized.] 

You  who  have  had  no  part  by  baptism  among  the  people  of  God, 
do  now  accept  the  seal  of  the  covenant. 

[Baptism  shall  here  be  administered  to  such  as  have  not  been  baptized.] 

ADDRESS    TO    THOSE    UNITING    BY   LETTER. 

Beloved  friends,  who  have  been  recommended  to  our  communion  by 
the  churches  to  which  you  have  belonged,  in  the  love  of  a  common 
Master,  we  welcome  you  to  our  joys  and  our  labors,  trusting  that  you 
will  both  receive  comfort  and  strength  and  impart  the  same  to  us. 

In  uniting  with  this  church  you  do  all  promise  to  obey  the  commands 
and  walk  with  us  in  the  ordinances  of  the  gospel,  to  cherish  the  fellow- 
ship of  this  church  to  whose  creed  you  have  just  listened,  to  attend  and 

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COVENANT   FOR   ALL. 


according  to  your  ability  to  contribute  to  the  support  of  its  worship, 
to  aid  in  its  labors,  and  as  far  as  in  you  lies  to  promote  its  purity,  peace 
and  prosperity.     Do  you  thus  promise? 
We,  then,  the  members  of  this  church 

[Here  all  the  members  of  the  church  will  arise.] 
affectionately  receive  you  into  our  communion  and  welcome  you  into 
this  fellowship  with  us  in  the  blessings  of  the  gospel  and  the  service 
of  our  divine  Redeemer.  We  promise  with  God's  help  to  walk  with  you 
in  Christian  love  and  tenderness,  and  to  aid  you  in  discharging  the 
duties  which  you  have  this  day  assumed,  by  our  sympathies,  our  coun- 
sels and  our  prayers. 

For  this  cause 

[Here  all  bow  the  head  in  prayer.] 

we  make  supplication  unto  the  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  that 
He  would  grant  you,  according  to  the  riches  of  His  glory,  to  be  strength- 
ened with  might  by  His  Spirit  in  the  inner  man ;  that  Christ  may  dwell 
in  your  hearts  by  faith ;  that  ye,  being  rooted  and  grounded  in  love, 
may  be  able  to  comprehend  with  all  saints  what  is  the  breadth  and 
length  and  depth  and  height,  and  to  know  the  love  of  Christ  which 
passeth  knowledge. 

The  Lord  bless  you  and  keep  you;  the  Lord  make  His  face  to  shine 
upon  you  and  be  gracious  unto  you;  the  Lord  lift  up  His  countenance 
upon  you,  and  give  you  peace. 

Now  unto  Him  who  is  able  to  keep  you  from  falling,  and  to  present 
you  faultless  before  the  presence  of  His  glory  with  exceeding  joy,  to 
the  only  wise  God  our  Saviour  be  glory  and  majesty,  dominion  and 
power,  both  now  and  forever.     Amen. 

[Here  the  pastor  in  behalf  of  the  church  shall  give  to  each  the  right  hand  of  fellow- 
ship.] 

ARTICLES    OF    THE    CHURCH    AND    SOCIETY. 

Soon  after  the  organization  of  the  society,  October  2,  1840,  as  a 
religious  corporation,  the  following  articles  were  adopted  both  by  the 
church  and  society,  as  the  basis  of  union  and  co-operation : 

I.  The  congregation  shall  hold  the  property,  and  receive  the  income, 
and  make  all  pecuniary  engagements,  appropriations  and  payments. 

II.  In  calling  a  pastor,  the  congregation  and  church  will  act  as  con- 
current bodies — a  majority  of  each  being  necessary  to  constitute  a  call ; 
the  church  nominating  and  the  congregation  confirming  or  rejecting  the 
nomination. 

III.  The  committee  of  the  church  will  provide  for  the  supply  of  the 
pulpit  when  there  is  no  settled  pastor,  making  the  necessary  arrange- 
ments for  singing,  and,  in  general,  for  the  ordinary  celebration  of  re- 
ligious worship ;  and  the  congregation  will  liquidate  all  reasonable 
expenses  thereby  incurred.     Provided,  that  if  the  congregation  choose 

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to  do  so,  they  shall  always  have  a  right  to  make  the  committee  a  joint 
committee,  by  putting  on  it  as  many  members  of  the  congregation  as 
have  been  elected  from  the  church. 

PERMANENT    RULES    OF    THE    CHURCH. 

i.  The  permanent  officers  of  this  church  shall  be  a  pastor  or  pastors, 
and  deacons.  There  shall  also  be  elected  a  clerk,  a  treasurer,  superin- 
tendents of  the  Sunday-schools  of  the  church,  and  nine  brethren,  who, 
with  the  permanent  officers,  shall  constitute  a  committee  for  the  gen- 
eral oversight  of  the  interests  of  the  church.  This  committee  shall 
provide  for  the  supply  of  the  pulpit  in  cases  of  emergency ;  they  shall 
designate  the  objects  of  benevolence  to  be  brought  before  the  church 
for  its  contributions;  they  shall  confer  with  persons  who  offer  them- 
selves for  admission,  and  report  to  the  church  at  a  service  prior  to 
that  at  which  they  are  elected  the  names  of  all  whom  they  deem  suitable 
candidates.  They  may  also  transfer  the  regular  prayer  meeting  to 
another  evening  of  the  same  week. 

The  clerk,  treasurer,  and  superintendents  of  the  Sunday-schools  of 
the  church  shall  be  elected  annually  and  hold  office  for  one  year  from 
the  annual  meeting,  or  until  their  successors  shall  have  been  elected ; 
the  nine  brethren  to  be  elected  as  members  of  the  committee  shall  be 
elected  as  follows:  At  the  first  election,  three  brethren  shall  be  elected 
to  serve  for  one  year  from  the  annual  meeting,  three  brethren  shall  be 
elected  to  serve  for  two  years  from  the  annual  meeting,  and  three 
brethren  shall  be  elected  to  serve  for  three  years  from  the  annual  meet- 
ing. At  each  annual  meeting  thereafter,  three  brethren  shall  be  elected 
to  serve  for  three  years  from  such  annual  meeting. 

2.  All  officers  of  the  church  shall  be  elected  by  ballot,  and  without 
any  public  nomination,  unless  a  committee  shall  be  appointed  for  that 
purpose.  If  such  committee  be  appointed,  the  name  proposed  by  the 
officers  and  teachers  of  the  Sunday-school  for  superintendent  shall  be 
received  and  considered  by  such  nominating  committee.  Such  nom- 
inating committee  may  be  appointed  at  the  same  meeting,  or  at  any 
regular  Wednesday  evening  meeting  for  prayer  and  conference,  held 
at  least  two  weeks  previous  to  any  election.  When  a  vacancy  occurs 
in  any  office,  the  clerk  shall  notify  the  church  of  the  same  at  the  first 
business  meeting  thereafter;  and  the  church  shall  designate  a  time 
for  filling  such  vacancy,  of  which  notice  shall  be  given  on  the  Sabbath 
preceding. 

3.  The  church  shall  meet  for  prayer  and  conference  on  Wednesday 
evening  of  each  week.  The  Lord's  Supper  will  be  administered  on  the 
first  Sabbaths  of  February,  April,  June,  October,  and  December,  and 
the  prayer  meetings  next  preceding  these  Sabbaths  shall  be  also  business 
meetings,  at  which  any  matter  relating  to  the  interests  of  the  church 
may  be  introduced;  the  annual  meeting  shall  be  held  on  the  Wednes- 
day evening  preceding  the  last  Wednesday  in  January ;    at  which  the 

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committee  and  the  treasurer  of  the  church  and  of  the  deacons'  fund 
shall  present  their  reports,  and  the  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  shall 
be  elected. 

Upon  the  requisition  of  ten  brethren,  in  writing,  the  clerk  shall  call 
a  special  meeting  for  business,  by  causing  a  notice  to  be  read  from  the 
pulpit  on  the  Sabbath  preceding  such  meeting. 

No  business  shall  be  transacted  at  any  meeting  other  than  the  busi- 
ness meetings  herein  provided,  except  the  consideration  of  requests  to 
participate  in  ecclesiastical  councils,  and  applications  for  contributions 
at  the  time  for  special  objects  of  benevolence;  which  requests  and 
contributions  shall  be  in  order  at  any  meeting. 

4.  Admission  to  membership  shall  be  by  the  election  of  the  church 
at  a  business  meeting  (at  which  candidates  are  expected  to  be  present) 
and  by  publicly  joining  in  the  covenant  at  a  communion  service. 

5.  Requests  for  letters  of  dismission  may  be  announced  .at  any  of 
the  services  of  the  church;  and  if  no  objection  is  made  to  the  clerk, 
he  shall  issue  to  the  applicant  the  customary  certificate,  which  shall  be 
valid  only  one  year  from  its  date,  at  which  time  his  or  her  relation  to 
this  church  shall  terminate,  unless  such  certificate  shall  have  been  re- 
turned to  the  clerk. 

6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  committee  to  report  to  the  church,  from 
time  to  time,  the  names  of  those  members  who  have  removed  from  the 
city  without  requesting  letters  of  dismission,  and  of  those  who  are 
habitually  absent  from  Sabbath  services  and  the  communion  table  of 
the  church,  for  such  action  as  may  be  deemed  proper  in  the  premises; 
it  being  understood  that  this  rule  does  not  supersede  the  responsibility 
of  individuals  to  labor  personally  to  recover  such  as  may  fall  into  error 
or  sin,  and,  if  need  be,  to  bring  their  cases  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
church.  A  supplemental  roll,  to  be  known  as  the  "  Absentee  Roll," 
shall  be  kept,  to  which  shall  be  transferred  from  time  to  time  the  names 
of  those  absent  members  whose  residences  are  unknown  or  who  are 
habitually  absent  from  the  services  of  the  church  for  reasons  unex- 
plained, and  against  whom  the  church  does  not  feel  prepared  to  pro- 
ceed by  way  of  discipline;  and  as  these  are  self-suspended  members 
the  church  and  its  officers  are  relieved  from  the  duty  of  active  watch 
and  care  in  respect  to  them. 

7.  All  questions  shall  be  determined  by  a  majority  of  the  adult  mem- 
bers present  on  the  occasion;  with  this  exception — that  the  articles  of 
faith,  covenant,  form  of  admission,  or  permanent  rules  shall  not  be 
altered  but  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  at  an  annual  meeting ;  notice  of  the 
intention  to  propose  alterations,  and  a  statement  of  the  substance  of 
such  alterations,  having  been  submitted  at  a  previous  business  meeting. 

RULES  OF  THE  SOCIETY. 

1.  The  annual  meeting  of  the  society  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle 
shall  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  succeeding  the  first  Monday  in 

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November  in  each  year  for  the  purpose  of  hearing  the  report  of  the 
trustees,  filling  the  yearly  and  other  vacancies  in  the  board  of  trustees, 
and  generally  for  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  then 
be  properly  brought  before  the  society. 

2.  The  board  of  trustees  shall  consist  of  six  members,  until  other- 
wise directed  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  society 
present,  and  voting  at  an  annual  meeting;  and  two  of  these  shall  be 
elected  annually  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  first  of  December 
following. 

3.  Any  vacancy  in  the  board  of  trustees  arising  from  any  cause,  may 
be  filled  by  the  remaining  trustees  until  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the 
society,  at  which  meeting  the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired 
term. 

4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  trustees  to  keep  a  record  of 
their  proceedings,  and  to  make  a  report  to  the  society  at  its  annual 
meeting.  The  board  shall  also  cause  a  treasurer's  report  to  be  made 
annually  to  show  the  financial  condition  of  the  society,  and  submit  an 
estimate  of  the  sum  which  it  may  appear  to  them  necessary  to  raise 
to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  society,  other  than  the  pastor's  salary, 
for  the  ensuing  year. 

5.  At  each  election  the  inspectors  of  election  shall  preside  in  front 
of  the  audience  with  a  box  for  the  reception  of  ballots. 

6.  The  payment  of  pew-rent  to  the  trustees  shall  be  considered  the 
only  mode  of  contributing  to  the  support  of  the  society;  and  every 
person  who  hires  from  them  a  pew,  or  one  or  more  sittings,  shall  be 
deemed  to  have  thereby  requested  that  his  or  her  name  be  registered 
as  a  member  of  the  society,  and  the  clerk  is  hereby  directed  to  enter  such 
names  upon  the  register  accordingly. 

7.  Any  person  who  at  any  time  ceases  to  be  a  stated  attendant  upon 
divine  worship  with  this  church  and  society,  or  whose  pew-rent  shall 
be  twelve  months  in  arrears,*  shall  be  considered  as  having  withdrawn 
from  membership  in  the  society,  and  shall  not  be  entitled  to  vote. 
Neither  shall  any  person  be  allowed  to  vote  at  any  meeting  of  this 
society  who  does  not  possess  the  statute  qualifications  of  an  elector. 

8.  Special  meetings  of  the  society  may  be  called  by  the  board  of 
trustees ;  also  by  the  written  request  of  fifteen  members  of  the  society. 
Public  notice  of  such  special  meeting  shall  be  given  in  the  church,  or 
other  place  of  worship  of  this  society,  at  least  ten  days  before  the 
meeting. 

These  by-laws  may  be  altered  only  at  an  annual  meeting  by  a  vote 
of  two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  society  present  and  voting.  Notice 
of  the  intention  to  propose  alterations,  and  a  statement  in  writing  of 
such  alterations,  must  be  submitted  to  the  society  at  a  previous  business 
meeting. 

"  Pew-rents  are  due  and  payable  in  advance  on  the  first  days  of  May  and 
November. 

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Members  of  Church   Committee 

David  Hale   1840,  1841,  1843 

Marcus  Hurd 1840,  1841 

Samuel  C.  Hills 1840,  1841 

Leonard  Crocker 1840-1842,  1844,  1845 

George  Dryden 1840,  1841 

James  C.  Cruikshank 1842,  1845 

Munson  Lockwood 1842 

Richard  Hale 1842 

Stephen  C.  Gray 1842 

Amzi  Camp   1843,  J^45 

William  R.  Powell 1843,  1852 

Charles  Durfee 1843 

Aaron  Q.  Thompson 1843 

Henry  Whittlesey 1844,  1846 

James  Smith 1844,  1848 

Seth  W.  Benedict 1844,  1846,  1858 

Jeremiah  C.  Lanphier 1844 

A.  W.  Huntington 1845,  1848,  185 1 

William  G.  West 1845,  1847,  1849,  1854 

William  C.  Gilman 1846 

John  Sloan 1846 

Abel  K.  Thompson 1846,  1855,  1857,  1858,  1865 

D.  S.  Williams 1847,  !§49 

George  Walker 1847 

W.  W.  Fessenden 1847,  1865,  1866,  1868 

Cyrus  S.  Minor 1847,  1849,  1874 

Isaac  E.  Smith 1848,  1855 

Marcus  Mitchell 1848,  1850,  1853 

Edwin  Johnson 1848,  1849 

I.  Walter  Camp 1849 

Thomas  E.  Smith 1850,  1852,  i860 

Charles  H.  Waterbury 1850,  1854 

John  Gray 1850,  1856 

Asa  Walker 1850 

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Matthew  W.  Starr 185 1 

Amos  G.  Bartlctt 1851 

Henry  C.  Conkling 185 1 

Joseph  E.  Woodbridge 1851 

T.  L.  Ensign 1852 

Alexander  Anderson 1852,  1856,  1857 

Myron  J.  Frisbie 1852,  1859 

A.'S.  Ball 1853 

Thomas  Ritter 1853 

Moses  Cristy 1853 

Thomas  Rutherford 1853 

George  Andrews 1-854 

Langdon  S.  Ward 1854 

Henry  A.  Halsey 1854,  1858 

James  D.  Smith 1854,  1858 

Alexander  T.  Henderson 1855 

Samuel  Holmes 1855,  1857 

Henry  C.Hall 1855,  1857,  1859 

William  B.  Holmes 1856 

Norman  A.  Calkins 1856 

Edward  Pratt 1856 

David  A.  Hale 1857 

R.  A.  Dorman 1857,  1871,  1877,  1889,  1894 

Asa  Parker 1858 

Charles  S.  Smith 1859,  1863 

James  H.  Grovesteen J859 

Wallace  E.  Caldwell 1859,  i860,  1861 

Levi  M.  Bates i860,  1878 

Samuel  P.  Holmes i860 

Charles  Bell  1861 

Teremiah  Reeve   1861 

Caleb  B.  Knevals 1861,  1868 

William  H.  Smith 1862 

William  G.  Lambert 1862 

Thomas  W.  Whittemore 1862,  1864 

Edmund  L.  Champlin 1862 

William  H.  Bridgeman 1863 

George  H.  White 1863 

Charles  Abernethv 1863 

William  Allen  .  .' 1864,  1869,  1873,   1874 

William  H.  Thomson 1864 

Nathaniel  Fisher 1864 

Edward  B.  Finch 1865 

James  Talcott 1865,  1869 

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Charles  Whittemore 

A.  H.  Clapp 

Francis  B.  Nicol 

John  H.  Washburn  .... 

Thomas  S.  Berry 

Robert  L.  Hall 

Daniel  C.  Ripley 

William  F.  Barnard 

Thomas  Lane 

Lafayette  Ranney , 

Morris  Roberts,  Jr 

Samuel  Burnham , 

William  M.  Chamberlain 

Frederick  Link 

James  T.  Leavitt 

Chauncey  P.  Fitch 

Normandus  W.  Thayer  . 

Austin  Abbott 

Cornelius  N.  Bliss 

Charles  T.  Rodgers  .... 
George  A.  Chamberlain  . 

Joseph  A.  Shoudy 

Charles  W.  Cleveland  . . 

Henry  F.  Hills 

Matthew  C.  D.  Borden  .  . 

James  FI.  Dunham 

Henry  W.  Hubbard  .  . . . 

L.  Smith  Hobart 

Leonard  Hazeltine 

Philip  VanVolkenburgh 

Lowell  Lincoln 

Irving  R.  Fisher 

William  D.  Moore 

Henry  Hayes 

Isaac  S.  Piatt 

Bradford  K.  Wiley 

Henry  W.  Carey 

Hamilton  S.  Gordon  .  . . 
J.  Howard  Sweetser 

Edward  D.  P'isher 

Augustus  Gaylord 

Lucien  C.  Warner 

John  Lindley 

Moores  M.  White 


866, 

866, 

866 

867 

867 

867, 

867 

868 

868 

869 

869, 

870, 

870 

870, 

870, 

871 

871 

872 

872 

872 

873 

873 

874 

874 

875, 

875, 

876 

876 

877 

877 
878 

879 
879 
879 

880 

880, 

880 

881, 

881 

881, 

882 

882- 

883, 

883 


1871,  1875,  1879 
1872 


1873 


1875,  1900 

1876,  1877 

1878 
1880-1883,  18S5 


1876,  1878 
1886 


1888,  1893,  1896 

1900 

1886,  1893 

1892 
1891 


251 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

George  H.  Clark 1883 

Albert  Bellamy 1884 

D.  Kellogg  Baker 1884 

Richard  McNamee 1884 

Rufus  Adams 1884,  1891 

Charles  L.  Mead 1885,  1896 

Harris  H.  Hayden 1885,  1897 

Charles  E.  Whittemore 1885,  1900, 

Ezra  P.  Hoyt 1886 

George  Richards 1886 

Edward  P.  Lyon 1887 

Seth  W.  Johnson 1887 

Edward  F.  Browning 1887 

Silas  H.  Paine 1888,  1895,  1898,  1900 

Benjamin  Griffen  1888 

Alfred  D.  F.  Hamlin 1889,  1894,  1900 

S.  Charles  Welsh 1889 

Edward  A.  Newell 1890 

Oliver  O.  Howard 1890,  1893 

Joseph  S.  Case 1890 

Charles  E.  Bruce 1891 

J.  Sinclair  Armstrong 1892 

Edward  J.  Brown 1892 

James  E.  Corsa 1892,  1900 

Chester  Holcombe 1894 

Isaac  D.  Blodgett 1894 

William  L.  Stowell 1895 

Cephas  Brainerd,  Jr 1895 

John  K.  Far  well 1895 

Clarence  W.  Bo  wen 1896 

George  L.  Leonard 1896,  1899 

Charles  E.  Mitchell 1897 

Edward  W.  Peet 1897 

Amos  H.  Stephens 1897 

Clarence  W.  Eckardt 189S 

Robert  B.  Fleming 1898 

Thomas  S.  Hope  Simpson 1898,  1900 

George  S.  Edgell 1899 

Irving  C.  Gaylord 1899 

Charles  W.  Robinson 1899,  1900 

Reuben  W.  Ross 1900 


2=12 


Officers  of  the  Church  and  Society 

Clerks  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle   Church 

Abel  K.  Thompson 1 840-1 842 

Albert  W.  Huntington 1843 

I.  Walter  Camp 1844 

Edward  F.  Tread  well 1 845-1 846 

Henry  M.  Benedict 1846-1847 

William  W.  Fessenden 1847,  1848,  1849,  1851-1864 

James  D.  Smith 1850 

*  Alexander  Anderson 1857 

Leonard  Hazeltine,  Jr 1865-1870,  1872-1876 

Frederick  E.  Coffin 1871 

Edward  F.  Browning 1877-1879 

William  Ives  Washburn 1880- 1899 

George  L.  Leonard 1900 

Treasurers  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle   Church 

Abel  K.  Thompson 1840-1842 

Albert  W.  Huntington 1843 

I.  Walter  Camp 1844 

Edward  F.  Tread  well 1845 

Henry  M.  Benedict 1846-1847 

William  W.  Fessenden 1847-1849;  1851-1864;  1867-1869 

James  D.  Smith 1850 

Alexander  Anderson  J859 

Abel  K.  Thompson i860 

William  B.  Holmes 1861-1866 

John  H.  Washburn 1869-1878 

Joel  E.  Fisher 1879-1886 

Irving  R.  Fisher 1887-1894 

Irving  C.  Gaylord 1895 

Nathaniel  C.  Fisher 1896- 

Deacons  of  the  Broadway  Tabernacle   Church 

Samuel  Pitts 1840-1853 

John  C.  Cass 1840-1847 

f  William  G.  Lambert 1840,  1862-1882 

Israel  Minor 1840-1866 

Albert  Woodruff 1841-1844 

Henry  Whittlesey 1847-1879 

George  Walker 1849-1859 

Matthew  W.  Starr 1853-1862 

*  Served  for  a  few  months.  \  Resigned  in  1S40. 

253 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Austin  Abbott 1859-1866,  1873-1896 

William  H.  Thomson 1866- 

Samuel  Holmes  1860-1867 

Henry  C.  Hall 1862-1873 

William  H.  Smith 1862-1892 

Thomas  W.  Whittemore -1885 

John  H.  Washburn 1878- 

Henry  C.  Houghton 187S- 

Henry  W.  Hubbard 1879- 

Augustus  Gaylord  1883- 

Charles  Whittemore 1S85- 

Lucien  C.  Warner 1892- 

Charles  L.  Mead 1896-1899 

Richard  A.  Dorman 1899- 


Trustees  of  the   Broadway  Tabernacle  Society 

David  Hale 1 840-1 841 ;  1844-1849 

Alonzo  Calkins 1840-1841 

John  C.  Cass 1840-1842 

William  A.  Coit 1840-1845 

Albert  Woodruff 1840-1843 

F.  S.  Grant 1840-1843 

John  P.  Hull 1841-1844 

Stephen  Van  Dyke 1841-1842 

Samuel  Pitts 1842-1852 

David  S.  Williams 1842-1850 

Horace  Dresser 1843-1848 

Samuel  C.  Hills 1843-1846 

Elijah  P.  Woodruff 1845-1847 

William  C.  Gilman 1846-1849 

Lansing  C.  Moore 1847-185 1 

Henry  M.  Benedict 1848-1849 

Aaron  B.  Heath 1849-1850 

James  Smith 1849-1855  ;  1857-186S 

Israel  Minor 1849-1858 

Joseph  W.  Camp 1850-1852 

John  Gray 1850-1877 

B.  Blanco 1851-1854 

Albert  W.  Huntington 1852-1853 

David  A.  Hale 1852-1856 

William  G.  West 1853-1860 

Mvron  J.  Frisbie 1854-1857 

Samuel  Holmes 1855-1868 

Thomas  Ritter 1856-1859 

254 


Officers  of  the  Church  and  Society 

Lafayette  Ranney 1858-186 I 

Adon  Smith   1859-1862 

Abner  Bartlett 1860-1863 

SethB.  Hunt 1861-1862 

Caleb  B.  Knevals 1862-1899 

Levi  M.  Bates 1862-1877 ;  1878-1889 

James  D.  Smith 1863-1868 

Alfrederick  S.  Hatch 1868-1872 

Charles  Abernethy 1868-1878 

Nathaniel  Fisher 1868-1880 

Cornelius  N.  Bliss 1872- 

Leonard  Hazeltine 1877-1886 

Matthew  C.  D.  Borden 1877- 

Charles  S.  Smith 1881-1894 

Joel  E.  Fisher 1886- 

James  H.  Dunham 18S9-1899 

Irving  R.  Fisher !894- 

William  Ives  Washburn 1899- 

Robert  B.  Fleming 1899- 

Sunday-School  Superintendents 

Accurate  records  of  early  Superintendents  not  obtainable. 

Matthew  W.  Starr, 
Samuel  Holmes, 
William  H.  Smith, 
Charles  A.  Bell, 

Caleb  B.  Knevals 1866-1885 

John  Lindley 1886,  1887 

Edward  P.  Lyon 1888 

Richard  A.  Dorman 1889-1892 

♦Herbert  G.  Thomson 1893-1895 

fRufus  Adams 1893,  1894 

{Irving  C.  Gaylord 1895 

Irving  C.  Gaylord 1896 

Harris  H.  Hayden 1897- 

Sextons  of  the  Church 

Missing  dates  not  obtainable  from  Records. 

John  S.  Savery -1842 

W.  H.  Snow 1843- 

Walter  Reid   1846-1853 

Fredericks  Boyd   1854-1896 

W.  R.  Fearn 1896- 

*  (Morning.)  f  (Afternoon.) 

255 


Note. 

In  the  following  Chronological  List  of  Members,  the 
names  of  those  uniting  by  letter  are  printed  in  Roman, 
those  uniting  on  confession  of  faith  in  Italics.  The  second 
date  applies  to  the  termination  of  membership  whether  by 
death,  dismission,  or  discipline.  In  a  few  instances  the 
Church  records,  while  indicating  the  death  of  a  member, 
do  not  give  the  exact  date.  These  have  been  so  stated  in 
the  list.  The  names  after  marriages  of  women  who  united 
under  their  maiden  names,  are  given  in  parenthesis  after 
the  latter. 


Chronological 


List  of  Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed, 

i.  David  Hale  Sept.  3,  1840  Jan.  21, 

2.  Lucy  S.  Hale  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Oct.  28, 

3.  Lydia  Hale   (Mrs.) "  "  "  Dec.    5, 

4.  Richard  Hale  "  "  "  Mch.  27, 

5.  Samuel  Pitts "  "  "  Aug.  17, 

6.  Rhoda  P.  Pitts  (Mrs.) "  "  '  Aug.   17, 

7.  Marcus  Hurd  "  "  "  Mch.  24, 

8.  Fanny  Hurd  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Feb.    7, 

9.  Abel  K.  Thompson "  "  "  Mch.  II, 

10.  Israel  Minor "  "  '  Jan.   21, 

11.  Charlotte  L.  Minor  (Mrs.) "  "  '  Jan.   21, 

12.  Jacob  Brinkerhoff  "  "  "  April  7, 

13.  Mary  G.  Brinkerhoff  (Mrs.) "  "  "  April  7, 

14.  Silas  C.  Smith "  "  July    4, 

15.  Mary  Smith  (Mrs.) "  "  "  July    4, 

16.  David  I.  Huntington "  "  "  Mch.  23, 

17.  Emily  S.  Huntington  (Mrs.).  .. "  "  "  Mch.  23, 

18.  Harriet  S.   Chamberlain    (Mrs.   Joseph 

Stone)    "  "  "  Oct.  23, 

19.  David  Bourne "  "  "  April  29, 

20.  Mary  Gray  (Mrs.) "  "  "  June  19, 

21.  Francis  N.  Shaw Nov.  6, 

22.  William  M.  Ray "  "  "  Feb.  20, 

23.  Charles  Roberts "  "  "  June  8, 

24.  Martin  Uhler  "  "  "  April  12, 

25.  Augustus  Hustace "  "  "  July  29, 

26.  J.  W.  Fellows "  "  "  Sept.  27, 

27.  Mary  A.  Fellows  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Sept.  27, 

28.  Charlotte  Crawford  (Mrs.) "  "  "  April  4, 

29.  Catherine  Potter  (wid.  John) Died.  No 

30.  Hezekiah  Whitney "  May    1, 

31.  Rachel  B.  Sickles "  "  "  Jan.    4, 

32.  John  S.  Savory "  "  "  Dec.  27, 

33.  Benjamin  Waterbury  

34.  Isaac  E.  Smith "  "  "  Aug.  9, 

35.  George  Williams  "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

36.  Samuel  C.  Hills "  "  "  July    4, 

37.  Hervey  F.  Lombard "  "  Sept.  17, 

38.  Charles  G.  Wright "  "  "  May  10, 

39.  Harriet  Barry  (Mrs.  Meeks) "  "  "  Feb.  26, 

40.  Jaqueline  Barry  (Mrs.  Hoxie) "  "  Oct.  29, 

41.  Lavinia  Quackenboss "  "  Nov.  23, 

42.  George  Dryden "  "  "  Oct.    I, 

43.  Barbara  Dryden  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Oct.    1, 

44.  Ann  Hicks  (Mrs.  Watkins) "  "  "  April  15, 

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842 
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859 
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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

j.                             Name  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

45. '  Catherine  Alexander   Sept.  3.  1840     Nov.  23,  1852 

46.  Elva  James  (Mrs.  Wm.  Macdougal). ..  '                      Aug.  31,  1886 

47.  Eliza  H.Bacon  (Mrs.) Ju  y    2,    1845 

48.  Stephen  Pritchard i(      JulX    5,    i«44 

49.  Asa  K.  Allen fe^13'1?41 

50.  Cordelia  Halsey  (Mrs.  Brown) Feb.    1,    1849 

51.  Sarah  Probasco   (Mrs.) '       „              May  25,  185 1 

52.  Susannah  Orr Aug.  30,  1842 

53.  Elizabeth  A.  Wicks  (Mrs.  Curtis) "      Nov.  18,  1851 

54.  Alfred  W.   Smith "                      Dec.    6,    1841 

55.  Leonard  Crocker  '               '       Nov.  n,  1S47 

56.  Penelope  Crocker  ( Mrs. ) *                       Nov.  1 1,  1847 

57.  William  G.  West Aug.  21,  i860 

<8.  Orange  A.  Smith Dec.  14,  1843 

59.  John  C.  Cass Jan.    3,    1850 

60.  Susan  W.Cass  (Mrs.) 1850 

61.  William  G.  Lambert "                      Mch  3h  1841 

62.  Asa  Parker  April  22,  1862 

63.  Rebecca  I.  Parker  (Mrs.) '        Dec,         1844 

64.  Alexander  Patrick Dec.  21,  1853 

65.  Louisa  Patrick  (wid.  Alexander) Sept    9,   1863 

66.  John  W.  Crane Apn8,   1842 

67.  James  E.  P.  Dean "      "      "      April  30,  1845 

68.  Albert  Woodruff  Oct.   26,  1840    Dec.  17,  1844 

69.  George  G.  Jewett "      "      u      Sept.  30,  1846 

70.  Jane  L.  Smith  (Mrs.) Dec.    6,    1841 

71.  Albert  L.  Winship July    I,    1863 

72.  Charlotte  S.  Turner Dec.  28,  1840     Nov  24,  1850 

73.  Abial  Brush  Hagcman "       "      "      April  19,  1853 

7%SarahGray "      "      "      Mch.  6,   1847 

75.  Charles  R.  Harvey Mch.  I,  1841     May  22,  1844 

76.  Rebecca  Harvey  ( Mrs. ) "      '       "      May  22,  1844 

77.  Marcia  L.  Harvey  (Mrs.  Elliott) "                    Dec.  24,  1844 

78.  Ann  Frost  ( Mrs.  Wood) "      "              Nov.  12,  1841 

79.  Sylvia  Griswold  ( Mrs. ) '       "              Dec.  29,  1849 

80.  Rebecca  Wood  (wid.  Benjamin) "                      May  24,  1870 

81.  Sarah  Sickles   ( Mrs. ) "      ''              Jan.    4,    1844 

82.  Stephen  C.  Gray '  May  12,  1842 

S3.  Harriet  Gray  ( Mrs. ) Mch.  6,   1846 

84.  Harriet  Gant  (Mrs.) "                      May   6,    1846 

85.  Thomas  Lane   "       "       "       °,.CV2'    J'o44 

86.  John  W.  Hall "                     Mch.   1,1853 

87.  Priscilla  Polhemus  (wid.  John  Gray)..  "      '               July  — ,   1801 

88.  Catherine  Doyle "      "      "       May    8,    1855 

89.  R.  E.  Dibbles "      "      '       Oct.  23,  1857 

90.  Marv  Dibbles  (Mrs.) "                      Sept.  9,   1851 

91.  E.  Warren  Andrews "                      Nov.  28,  1845 

92.  Maria  C.  Hopkins "      "      "      Jan.    6,    1852 

93.  Louisa  Weed "                     Dec.  25,  1843 

94.  James  Cruikshank "      "              Feb-  *5>  185 1 

95.  Mary  Ann  Wheeler  (Mrs.  Cruikshank)  .  "      "      "      Feb.  15,  1851 

96.  Sarah  Woodruff  ( Mrs. ) "      "      "      Dec.  17,  1844 

97.  Harriet  Woodruff  (Mrs.) "       "      "      Dec.  17,  1844 

98.  Cynthia  Woodruff "      "      "      Dec.  17,  1844 

99.  Elizabeth  Elder   (Mrs.) "      "      "      April  7,  1853 

253 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received, 

ioo.  Lydia  K.  Shipman  (wid.  De  Grass) . .  Mch.  I,  1841 

101.  Elizabeth  De  Witt  (Mrs.  Robinson)..  " 

102.  Albert  W.  Huntington "  " 

103.  Hazen  S.  Crook "  " 

104.  Sarah  A.  Belany  (Mrs.  Whitlock)...  "  " 

105.  Julia  A.  Belany  (Mrs.  Warner) "  " 

106.  Caroline  Wheeler  (Mrs.) "  " 

107.  Elizabeth  M.  Benton May  2,  1841 

108.  Lucy  Rogers  "  " 

109.  Jacob  Freeland  "  " 

no.  Henry  A.  Halsey "  " 

in.  Ann  H.  Halsey  (Mrs.) "  " 

112.  Deborah  C.  Woolley  (Mrs.  Evans)...  "  " 

113.  Emily  W.  Smithe  (wid.  Isaac  E.) "  " 

114.  Ann  Eliza  Merritt   (Mrs.) "  " 

115.  Catherine  Matilda  Peck  (wid.  Benj.).  "  " 

116.  Elizabeth  Savory  (Mrs.  Bradley) "  " 

117.  Daniel  Whiting  "  " 

118.  Susan  P.  Whiting  (wid.  Daniel) "  " 

119.  Julia  R.  Towne   (Mrs.) "  " 

120.  Mary  Mulliner  . . ._ "  " 

121.  Jesse  W.  Benedict "  " 

122.  Joseph  W.  Camp "  " 

123.  Edward  E.  Rankin  "  " 

124.  Erastus  L.  Ripley "  " 

125.  Julia  Ann  Wetmore July  4,  184 

126.  William  R.  Powell "  " 

127.  Ann  R.  Powell  (wid.  William  R.) "  " 

128.  Edward  S.  Bates "  " 

129.  Mary  G.  Bates  (wid.  Edward  S.) "  " 

130.  William  W.  Fessenden "  " 

131.  Elsworth  M.  Punderson "  " 

132.  Margaret  Kingsbury  (Mrs.) "  " 

133.  Elizabeth  Quiller  (Mrs.) "  " 

134.  Emma  Smith  (Mrs.) "  " 

135-  Charles  G.  Pratt "  " 

136.  Hector  Sears "  " 

137.  Lewis  P.  Clover "  " 

135.  Bridget  Clover  (Mrs.  Hibbard) "  " 

139.  Clarissa  Buel  (Mrs.  Treadwell) "  " 

140.  Rosina  Hamill  "  " 

141.  Franklin  Sayre  "  " 

142.  Thomas  P.  Gustin   "  " 

143.  Jonathan  F.  Morris "  " 

144.  Russell  W.  Robinson "  " 

145.  Julia  Johnson  Sept.  5,   1841 

146.  Almira  Ebbetts "  " 

147.  Elizabeth  Meeker  (Mrs.) "  " 

148.  Munson  Lockwood  "  " 

149.  Charlotte  Lockwood  (wid.  Munson) . .  "  " 

150.  Benjamin  Lockwood   "  " 

151.  Olivia  Lockwood  (wid.  Frederick) "  " 

152.  Elizabeth  Lockwood  (wid.  Benjamin) .  "  " 

153.  Le  Grand  Lockwood "  " 

154.  Henry  M.  Bendict "  " 

259 


When  Removed. 


Jan.  21, 
Jan.  6, 
Dec.  8, 
Oct.  3, 
Sept.  2, 
July  18, 
April  27, 
May  23, 

May, 
Feb.  17, 
May  27, 
June  20, 
Aug.  9, 
Nov.  23, 
Mch.  i, 
June  5, 
Jan.  19, 
Jan.  19, 
Sept.  14, 
Nov.  22, 
June  13, 
Feb.  3, 
Dec.  27, 
Nov.  24, 
Nov.  26, 
June  16, 
June  16, 
Dec.  28, 
Dec.  28, 
May  5, 
Mch.  10, 
Sept.  22, 
Feb.  28, 
Oct.  14, 
April  30, 
June  24, 
June  6, 
June  6, 
Oct.  12, 
June  15, 
Jan.  10, 
July  20, 
Nov.  23, 
Mch.  28, 
Mch.  5, 
May  4, 
May  29, 
Nov.  28, 
Nov.  28, 
May  27, 

May  27, 
Mch.  27, 
Aug.  29, 


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History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

:ived.   When  Removed. 

1841  July  27,  1842 
July  27,  1842 
Mch.  29,  1877 


Rece 
5, 


No.  Name.  When 

155.  Mary  Frazier  (Mrs.) Sept 

156.  Elizabeth  Frazier    

157.  Marv  Smith   

158.  Ann"  Eliza  Deniston  (Mrs.  Wanzer) . .     "       "      " 

159.  Mary  W.  Jewett  (Mrs.) "      "      " 

160.  Betsey  Ann  Harris 

161.  Thomas  J.  Hall  

162.  Olinda  A.  Camp  (wid.  Amzi) Nov.   7,   1841 

163.  Adaline  Winchester  (Mrs.  Knight)... 

164.  Rachel  Milligan  

165.  Eliza  Stephenson  (Mrs.  S.  H.  Crook). 

166.  Mary  C.  Carnes  (Mrs.) " 

167.  Sarah  Oakley  

168.  Maria  A.  Stone " 

169.  John  D.  Carnes  

170.  Mary  Crocker  (Mrs.) " 

171.  Agnes  Sage  (Mrs.) 

172.  Philomela  Strickland 

173.  Caroline  Stannard 

174.  Margaret  Frazier 

175.  Luther  Williams   

176.  Frances  Louisa  Williams 

177.  Charles  L.  Westervelt " 

178.  Nathaniel  Barnum " 

179.  Samuel  Whitney  

180.  Cyrus  S.  Minor 

181.  Moses  M.  Bradley   

182.  Aaron  Q.  Thompson " 

183.  Martha  Jane  Clover "      " 

184.  Lucy  T.  Hale  (Mrs.  S.  Conovcr) "      "      " 

185.  Laura  Hale  (Mrs.  J.  W.  Camp) "      "      " 

186.  William  H.  Whitlock Jan.    2,    1842 

187.  Elizabeth  Whitlock  (Wrilliam  H.)....      "      "      " 

188.  Mary  L.  Whitlock "      "      "( 

189.  Susan  Rebecca  Webb 

190.  James  I.  Walworth " 

191.  Elizabeth  C.  Walworth  (James  I.)...      "      "      " 

192.  Frederick  H.  Johnson 

193.  Euphemia  Sutherland  (Mrs.) " 

194.  Joanna  Sutherland   

195.  Jane  McVickars  (Mrs.  Rickett) "      "      " 

196.  William  H.  Moore "      "      " 

197.  Nathaniel  Davidson  "      " 

198.  William  P.  Comstock "      "      " 

199.  Betsey  G.  Swain  (Mrs.) "      "      u 

200.  James  H.  French " 

201.  Mary  W.  French  (Mrs.) "      "      " 

202.  David  H.  Fitch  "       " 

203.  Mary  C.  Fitch  (David  H.) "      "      " 

204.  Erock  Samuel  Burstrand "      " 

205.  Adaline  Chapman  (Mrs.)    (Mrs.  Sam- 

uel Wanser)  "      "      " 

206.  Susan  Clark  (Mrs.) "      "      " 

207.  Harriet  Wheeler  "       "       " 

208.  Frances  S)>icd!cy "      "      " 

260 


Aug.  22, 
Sept.  30, 
Sept.  17, 
Feb.  13, 
May  3, 
Oct.  17, 
Nov.  1, 
Oct.  3, 
July  2, 
Oct.  17, 
Nov.  23, 
May  25, 
Nov.  11, 
June  29, 
Oct.  11, 
May  10, 
July  27, 
May  13, 
May  13, 
Nov.  23, 
May  20, 
April  21, 
Dec.  — , 
Jan.  9, 
Jan.  13, 
June  22, 
Oct.  28, 
Feb.  3, 
Sept.  2, 

Sept.  2, 
Sept.  9, 
July  18, 
July  18, 
Nov.  23, 
Nov.  4, 
Mch.  1, 
May  I, 
Mch.  6, 
Mch.  1, 
Feb.  25, 
Dec.  28, 

Nov.  S, 
May  20, 
May  20, 
Jan.  22, 

May    1, 

Oct.    12, 

Mch.  16, 
Dec.  28, 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No. 

209. 
210. 
211. 
212. 

213- 
214. 

215. 

216. 
217. 

218. 

219. 

220. 
221. 

222. 
223. 
224. 
225. 
226. 
227. 
228. 
229. 
230. 
231. 
232. 

233- 

234. 
235- 
236. 

237- 
238. 

239- 
240. 
241. 
242. 
243- 
244. 
245- 
246. 

247- 

248. 
249. 
250. 
251. 

252. 
253- 
254- 
255- 
256. 
257- 
258. 
259- 
260. 


Name.                                                   When  Received.  When  Removed. 

Mary  Jane  Hulslander  (Mrs.  Calhoun)  Mch.  6,  1842  April  26,  1853 

Lewis  Pugh   "  "  "  Aug.  30,  1842 

Ruth  Grovener "  "  "  Sept.  30,  1846 

Mary  G.  Jewett  "  "  "  Sept.  30,  1846 

George  Andrews  "  "  "  June  27,  1855 

Sarah  Andrews  (George) "  "  "  June  27,  1855 

Charles  Durfee   "  "  "  Dec.    I,    1847 

Harriet  A.  Gregory  "  "  "  Nov.  10,  1843 

William  M.  Bennett "  "  "  May  25,  1842 

John  Chapman "  "  "  Mch.  — ,  1851 

Anna  J.  Chapman   (Mrs.)    (Mrs.  Ed-  "  "  "  Jan.  22,   1852 

ward  Brown)    

George  W.  Trembly   "  "  "  Mch.  4,   1856 

Ann    Eliza    Goddard    (Mrs.    Thomas 

Hinwood)   "  "  "  Nov.  15,  1855 

Julia  Ann  Reed  (Mrs.  Davis) "  "  "  Sept.  5,   i§43 

Cornelius  B.  Hulshart "  "  "  Oct.  12,  1847 

Mary  Hulshart  (Cornelius  B.) "  "  "  Aug.  17,  1847 

Maria  L.  Brown   (Mrs.) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

David  S.  Williams  "  "  "  April  22,  185 1 

Alanson  Taylor "  "  "  June  13,  1842 

Rebecca  Taylor  (Alanson) "  "  "  June  13,  1842 

Hannah  Church  ( Mrs. ) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1845 

Sarah  Jane  Church "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1845 

John  Burdell   "  "  "  April  12,  1844 

John  Bacon  "  "  "  July   2,    1845 

Mary  L.  Jackson  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Sept.  26,  1845 

Alvan  Reed "  "  "  Aug.  28,  1867 

Sarah  White  (Mrs.) "  "  "  April  2,   1845 

Harriet  B.  Thompson  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Aug.  12,  1844 

Thomas  N.  Dale  "  "  "  May   6,    1847 

Amelia  Hetcham "  "  "  April  30,  1845 

William  A.  Swain  "  "  "  Dec.  28,  1842 

Jacob  Brinkerhoff,  Jr May  1,1842  May   6,    1846 

Mary  Moore  "  "  Nov.  23,  1852 

Sarah  Jane  Smith  (Mrs.  Cooke) "  "  "  April  3,  1846 

James  Smith "  "  "  July    3,    1868 

Elwood  Stratton  "  "  "  April  11,  1843 

Aurelia  Snow  (Mrs. ) "  "  "  June  18,  1845 

Elisabeth  Stanley  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Feb.  27,  1855 

Charlotte    Jessup     (Mrs.    Joseph    N. 

Walker) "  "  "  April  29,  1856 

Lydia  Jessup  (Mrs.) "  "  "  May    1,    1854 

James  Olmsted "  "  "  Sept.  14,  1843 

Mary  Ann  Cruikshank  (Theodore) . ..  "  "  "  July  29,  1S52 

Thomas  C.  Chandler  "  '  "  Mch.  14,  1843 

Richard  S.  Cross  "  "  "  Dec.   8,    1851 

Stephen  Conover,  Jr ■  "  "  "  Oct.  28,   1852 

Henry  Camp "  "  "  Mch.  18,  1846 

Hannah  J.  Ross "  "  "  Sept.  9,   1851 

Olive  Wilkie  (Mrs.) "  "  "  May  23,  1845 

Hannah  Wheeler  (Mrs.  Gray) "  "  "  July  25,  1875 

Eliza  Dubois  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Mch.  6,   1843 

Lucy  Leuber  "  "  "  Mch.  6,   1843 

Ann  Maria  Love tt "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1S45 

261 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

261.  Sarah  Elder  (Airs.  Grcenleaf) May  1,  1842 

262.  Amintor  Davidson   "  "  " 

263.  Mary  F.  Holbrook  "  "  " 

264.  Mehina  Heath  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

265.  Aaron  D.  Heath  "  "  " 

266.  John  Gray  "  "  " 

267.  Sarah   Maria  Dempsey    (Mrs.    L.    C. 

Moore)    "  "  " 

268.  Rose  Ann  Miller "  "  " 

269.  Jeremiah  C.  Lanfihier "  "  " 

270.  Courtland  P.  S.  Betts "  "  " 

271.  Charles  D.  Brown "  "  " 

272.  John  G.  O'Brien  "  "  " 

273.  Gerard  Banckcr "  "  " 

274-  Josiah  A.  Priest "  "  " 

275.  Elizabeth  Ball  (Mrs. ) July  3,  1842 

276.  Charles  Denham   "  "  " 

277.  William  H.  Moseley "  "  " 

278.  S.  H.  Provost "  "  " 

279.  Ann  Delia  Turcott  (Mrs. ) "  "  " 

280.  George  Hillier  "  "  " 

281.  Eve  Blanchard "  "  " 

282.  Calvin  S.  Knight  "  "  " 

283.  Mary  W.  Fox  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

284.  Jeremiah  P.  Robinson  "  "  " 

285.  Pliny  Allen  "  "  " 

286.  Louisa  Allen  (wid.  Pliny) "  "  " 

287.  Elizabeth  S.  A.  Curtis "  "  " 

288.  William  W.  Smith  "  "  " 

289.  Deborah  Reed  (Mrs.)  ,. .  "  "  " 

290.  Mary  Ann  Smith   (Mrs.) "  "  " 

291.  Elizabeth  Austin   (Mrs.) "  "  " 

292.  Mary  Ann  Austin "  "  " 

293.  Cynthia  Jones "  "  " 

294.  Henry  I.  Sartwell "  "  " 

295.  Edward  I.  Smith Sept.  4,  1842 

296.  Richard  G.  E.  Humphrys "  "  " 

297.  Myron  H.  Crafts "  "  " 

298.  John  L.  Bennett "  "  " 

299.  Amanda  Bennett  (John  L.) "  "  " 

300.  Jane  Hustace  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

301.  Henry  Martin "  "  " 

302.  George  Hinman "  "  " 

303.  Seely  Scoficld "  "  " 

304.  Elizabeth  Bennett  (Mrs.  Moses  Stock- 

man)    "  "  " 

305.  Louisa  Johnson  (wid.  Robert) "  "  " 

306.  Charles  Frederick  Burchett "  "  " 

307.  Harriet  Rice  Nov.  6,  1842 

308.  Sarah  Lewis  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

309.  Mary  T.  West  (William  G.) "  "  " 

310.  Alice  Clifton  (Joseph) "  "  " 

311.  Phebe  Miller "  "  " 

312.  Emalinda  Miller "  "  " 

313-  Sarah  Smith   (John) "  "  " 

262 


When  Removed. 

Nov.    i,    1847 

July  18,  1844 
July  2,  1845 
May  24,  1855 
Mch.  8,  1851 
April  30,  1884 


Sept.  26, 
Jan.  4, 
May  13, 
April  26, 
June  — , 
Nov.  23, 
June  28, 
Aug.  6, 
April  29, 
Jan.  12, 
April  8, 
Mch.  5, 
May  23, 
Feb.  25, 
May  28, 
Nov.  17, 
Jan.  6, 
Sept.  17, 
Sept.  17, 
Sept.  17, 
Nov.  22, 
Mch.  14, 
July  11, 
Mch.  25, 
Mch.  25, 
April  3, 
April  15, 
Jan.  4, 
Jan.  24, 
Sept.  17, 
Oct.  9, 
Oct.  9, 
July  29, 
Nov.  2, 
Nov.  30, 
Sept.  9, 


Dec. 

Nov. 

Nov. 

Nov. 

Mch. 

Dec. 

Oct. 

June 

Oct. 

Mch. 


9, 

4, 

30, 

7, 

1, 

27, 
30, 
30, 
12, 

15, 


850 
849 
851 
859 
853 
852 
848 
846 
856 
852 
861 

845 
860 
851 
845 
S46 

847 
§42 
842 
842 
842 
855 
843 
846 
846 
843 
844 
859 
845 
845 
844 
844 
844 
843 
842 

851 

851 

845 
852 

843 
853 
854 
850 
863 
847 
848 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

314.  Frances  Dotey  Nov.  6,  1842 

315.  Augustus  F.  Ball 

316.  Mary  D.  C.  Schreiber Jan.    i&   1843 

317.  Emily  P.  Kummell 

318.  Betsey  Thompson  

319.  Eunice  Thompson  (Mrs.) "(      "( 

320.  Forman  Hendrickson 

321.  Eleanor  Hendrickson  (Forman) 

322.  Robert  Johnson  

323.  Nathan  Camp  

324.  Araty  Camp  (Nathan) "      u 

325.  Albert  Dodge  "      ((      u 

326.  Amzi  Camp 

327.  Hannah  N.  Smith  (wid.  Mrs.  William 

H.  Gates)   

328.  John  Sloane 

329.  John  P.  Hull  

330.  John  D.  Hart,  Jr 

331.  Margaret  L.  Fowle  (Mrs.) Mch.  5,  1843 

332.  John  A.  Fowle 

333.  Mason  B.  Browning 

334.  Moses  Christy  

335.  Elizabeth  Austin  Hawes  (Mrs.) 

336.  Sarah  Ann  Rowe 

237.  Cornelia  Hall 

338.  Benjamin  F.  Browning "       " 

339.  John  Stackhouse  

340.  John  Ranson  

341.  Angeline  White  May    7,  1843 

342.  Elizabeth  Waugh   (James  L.) 

343.  Emily  Hatfield  (Mrs.  Rogers) 

344.  Catharine  R.  Hatfield  (Mrs.  Minor)  . . 

345.  Melissa     Hatfield      (Mrs.     Abel.     K. 

Thompson)  

346.  Amarantha  Hatfield  

347.  Charles  R.  Hatfield  

348.  John  S.  Cook  

349.  Joseph  Terry 

350.  Benjamin  Menair  

351.  Abby  Ann  Cooke  (Mrs.  Ray) " 

352.  Fanny  Pollock  (Mrs. ) 

353.  Edward  A.  Clock  

354.  William  H.  Snow 

355.  Lucy  W.  Dresser  (Mrs.) 

356.  Emma  Robinson  (Hamilton  W.) 

357.  Elisabeth  Dennison  (Mrs.) 

358.  Phebe  Bancker  (Mrs. ) " 

359.  Catharine  Sigler  (Mrs.  Scofield) 

360.  Samuel  Elder 

361.  Sarah  Hawkins  (Willet) 

362.  Joseph  Harris 

363.  Hannah  T.  French  (Mrs.) "      "      " 

364.  Mary  Cousins 

365.  Eliza  Cousins  (Mrs.  Parker) 

366.  Jane  Cousins  (Mrs.  Menair) 

263 


When  Removed. 

Nov.  25,  1844 
Aug.  26,  1846 
July  30,  1850 
May  I,  1854 
Aug.  25,  185 1 
Mch.  15,  1859 
June  26,  1846 
June  26,  1846 
Feb.  16,  1847 
Sept.  28,  1843 
Sept.  28,  1843 
Nov.  23,  1852 
Mch.  25,  1859 


Feb.  24, 

Aug.  5, 
Aug.  17, 
Jan.  29, 
Mch.  6, 
Mch.  6, 
Mch.  6, 
Sept.  5, 
Jan.  16, 
May  1, 
June  25, 
Jan.  7, 

Nov.  23, 
May  1, 
Aug.  5, 
Oct.  16, 
Dec.  15, 

April  30, 
Aug.  3, 
Aug.  27, 
Dec.  17, 
Nov.  23, 
June  12, 
Feb.  20, 
Jan.  25, 
July  - 
June  18, 
Jan.  4, 
Aug.  5, 
Nov.  23, 
Oct.  23, 
June  28, 
Nov.  20, 
Jan.  25, 
Jan.  14, 
May  2, 
Oct.  25, 
Jan.  7, 
Oct.  11, 


1900 
1850 
1857 
1853 
1847 
1847 
1844 
1843 
1846 

1854 
1845 
1846 

1843 
1852 
1854 
1850 
1855 
1851 

1884 
1846 
1862 
1845 
1857 
1846 
1846 
1849 
1849 
1845 
1853 
1850 
1852 
1849 
1853 
1849 
1849 

1859 
1844 
1873 
1846 

1844 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.  Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

367.  Isabella  Menair    (Benjamin) May  7,  1843  June  12, 

368.  Martha  Menair   " 

369.  Ann  Harris  (Mrs.  Shillington) "  "  "  Dec.  29, 

370.  John  Jenkins  Allen "  "  "  May  23, 

371.  Harriet  Allen   (John  J.) "  "  "  May  23, 

372.  Isaac  Morris "  "  "  Mch.  30, 

373.  Mary  Morris "  "  "  Mch.  30, 

374.  Horace  Dresser  "  "  "  Feb.  26, 

375.  Eliza  Testman  (wid.  John) "  "  "  July  11, 

376.  Julia  B.  Meeker  (Mrs.  Pugsley) "  "  "  Nov.  13, 

377.  Henry  Whittelsey  "  "  "  April  29, 

378.  Rufus  Lockwood "  "  "  April  2, 

379.  Samuel  N.  Stebbins  "  "  "  May   6, 

380.  Margaret  Murray  (Mrs.  Fletcher)  ....  July  2,  1843  July  30, 

381.  Edward  F.  Treadwcll "  "  June  15, 

382.  George  Pollock "  "  "  Jan.  25, 

383.  William  Manwaring "  "  "  Mch.   1, 

384.  Lydia  W.  Bulkley "  "  "  Oct.  23, 

385.  Martha  Ann  Day  "  "  "  April  22, 

386.  Elizabeth  Ann  Watkinson "  "  "  Jan.    7, 

387.  Jane  Cummings  Watkinson  (Mrs.  Elias 

Gill)   "  "  "  Feb.   3, 

388.  Isaac  C.  Mayer "  "  "  Dec.  16, 

389.  Henrietta  N.  Mayer  (Isaac  C.) "  "  "  Dec.  16, 

390.  Samuel  R.  Morse "  "  "  Aug.  30, 

391.  Walter  Reid  "  "  "  April  22, 

392.  Margaret  D.  Reid  (Walter) "  "  "  April  22, 

393.  Margaret  Salters  (Mrs.) Sept.  4,  1843  Feb.  27, 

394.  Catherine  Johnson  (wid.  Henry  Hall) .  "  "  Jan.   18, 

395.  Abigail  Stubes  "  "  "  Mch.  27, 

396.  Elizabeth  Doak "  "  "  April  12, 

397.  Marcus  B.  Sanford "  "  "  May  12, 

398.  Susan  Rochester  (wid.  Joseph) "  "  "  July  28, 

399.  Jira  Payne  "  "  "  Dec.  21, 

400.  Sarah  Wareham  (Mrs.)   (Mrs.  Edwin 

S.Pierce)  "  "  "  Sept.  17, 

401.  May  Lavinia  Paige  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Oct.  30, 

402.  Mary  Ann  Wright  (Mrs.) Nov.  5,  1843  Feb.  — , 

403.  Susan  Colesworthy  (Mrs.) "  "  "  July  20, 

404.  Mary  Bruorton  (Mrs. ) Jan.  7,  1844  Aug.  22, 

405.  Asahel  Jones "  "  "  Aug.  22, 

406.  Mary  I.  Jones  (Asahel) "  "  "  Aug.  22, 

407.  Robert  G.  Leonori  "  "  "  Feb.  15, 

408.  Mary  Ann  Thompson  "  "  "  Aug.   5, 

409.  Sarah  Attn  Eaton  (Mrs.) '  "  "  July   22, 

410.  Sarah  Gill  (wid.  James) "  "  "  Sept.  II, 

411.  Samuel  Fisher  "  "  "  Oct.  31, 

412.  Mima  Ann  Fisher  (Samuel) "  "  "  Oct.  31, 

413.  Benjamin  M.  Wilson "  "  "  April  2, 

414-  Mary  W.  Wilson "  "  "  April  2, 

415.  Maria  Clough  (wid.  Isaac) "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

416.  Sarah  Van  Sice  (Mrs.  Kelsey) "  "  "  April—, 

417-  Miranda  W.  Crafts  (Myron  H.) "  "  "  Sept.  17, 

418.  Frederick  Hennell "  "  "  Jan.  28, 

419.  Charles  W.  Benedict "  "  "  Jan.  27, 

264 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

420.  George  W.  Dunsmore Jan.  7,  1844 

421.  Edward  Ward  "  "  " 

422.  Sophia  Ward   (Edward) "  "  " 

423.  George  Beard "  "  " 

424.  Eleanor  Beard  (George) "  "  " 

425.  Aurelia  Osborn  "  "  " 

426.  James  Menair Mch.  3,  1844 

427.  Alexander  F.  Welsh  " 

428.  Hannah  Thompson  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

429.  Matilda  J.  Hart  (Seth) "  "  " 

430.  Henry  Ames "  "  " 

431.  Seth  W.  Benedict "  "  " 

432.  Fanny  R.  Benedict  (Seth  W.) "  "  " 

433.  Ann  Louisa  Lockwood  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

434.  Margaret  Humphreys  (Mrs.) May  5,  1844    May  10, 

435.  Margaret  Stephenson  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

436.  Elizabeth  Boozy  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

437.  John  D.  Carnes  "  "  " 

438.  Harriet  E.  Whittelsey  (Mrs.  Giles  P. 

Van  Ness)   July  7,  1844 

439.  Thomas  B.  Griffith  "  "  " 

440.  Frances  Harris  (Mrs.)   "  "  " 

441.  Sarah  Beach  (wid.  David) "  "  " 

442.  James  W.  Higgins  "  "  " 

443.  Eleanor  R.  Higgins  "  "  " 

444.  Eleanor  Higgins  (James  W.) "  "  " 

445.  Elizabeth  L.  Lee  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

446.  Eliza  Barton  (Mrs.)   "  "  " 

447.  Lydia  Pearson  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

448.  Maria  L.  Hills  (Mrs.) Nov.  3,  1844 

449.  Isaiah  Beesley  "  "  " 

450.  Jane  Holmes  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

451.  Thomas  E.  Smith "  "  " 

452.  Gilbert  T.  Pugsley  "  "  " 

453.  Francis  L.  Benedict  "  "  " 

454.  John  Hinchey  "  "  " 

455.  Esther  Sears  (Mrs.) Jan.  5,  1845 

456.  Mary  P.  Janes  (wid.  Elijah) "  "  " 

457-  Abby  H.Davis  (Mrs.)  (Mrs.  Holmes)      "  "  " 

458.  Chloe  Drake  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

459.  Flora  A.  Smith  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

460.  Sarah  M.  Harris  (Mrs. ) "  "  " 

461.  Mary  J.  Cox  (Mrs.  Carnes) "  "  " 

462.  George  W.  Pratt Mch.  2,  1845 

463.  Mary  Pratt  (George  W.) "  "  " 

464.  David  A.  Hale "  "  " 

465.  John  Springer "  "  " 

466.  Thomas  Ritter "  "  " 

467.  Delia  M.  Ritter  (wid.  Thomas) "  "  " 

468.  George  F.  Glessing "  "  " 

469.  John  C.  West "  "  " 

470.  John  Crowe  "  "  " 

471.  Sarah  Van  Sice  (wid.  Joseph) May  4,  1845 

472.  Amanda  Van  Sice  (Mrs.  Montanye) . .      "  "  " 
473-  Julia  Hale  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

265 


Oct.  12,  ] 

847 

April  7,  ] 

846 

April  7,   ] 

84O 

April  24,  ] 

85i 

April  24,  ] 

851 

April  24,  ] 

851 

Oct.  11,  ) 

844 

Sept.  9,   ] 

851 

Dec.  17,  ] 

845 

Nov.  28, 

tqoo 

Nov.  23, 

[852 

Mch.  4,   ] 

[856 

Jan.    9, 

[854 

Mch.  27, 

[860 

May  10, 

[852 

April  — , 

[866 

Dec.  14, 

[852 

Jan.  26, 

[«47 

Feb.  10, 

[8qi 

Mch.  26, 

[851 

Jan.   14, 

[859 

Nov.    1, 

[847 

June  30, 

[846 

June  30, 

[846 

June  30, 

[846 

Nov.  23, 

1852 

April  5, 

[849 

Jan.  — , 

[847 

July   4, 

[848 

Feb.    1, 

[849 

Oct.  13, 

[848 

Feb.  25, 

1863 

Nov.  13, 

[84q 

Mch.  1, 

1853 

May  24, 

1849 

Dec.  17, 

1845 

Jan.  29, 

1850 

Nov.  9, 

1870 

July  30, 

1851 

Dec.    1, 

1864 

Sept.  9, 

1851 

Jan.  26, 

1847 

June  9, 

1853 

June  9, 

1853 

Sept.  7, 

i860 

Nov.  13, 

1849 

May  12, 

1876 

Jan.  30, 

1S92 

May  31, 

1855 

Nov.  — , 

1858 

Aug.  28, 

1855 

Sept.  — , 

1861 

Aug.  — , 

1861 

Mch.  27, 

1846 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

474.  Norman  L.  Hart  May  4,  1845  June  27, 

475.  John  L.  Baillie   July  6,  1845  May    1, 

476.  David  Ritter "  "  "  June  14, 

477.  Oliver  P.  Hatfield   "  "  "  Jan.   13, 

478.  Laura  Hatfield  "  "  "  Junei, 

479.  Martha    A.    Denniston    (Mrs.    R.    W. 

Ryckman)   "  "  "  May  27, 

480.  Henrietta  R.  Denniston  "  "  "  Dec.  15, 

481.  Thomas  E.  Hulse  "  "  "  May  22, 

482.  Pamelia  Ann  Hulse  (Thomas  E.)....  "  "  "  May  22, 

483.  Catharine  Masterson  (Mrs.  Dinning).  "  "  "  Jan.    7, 

484.  Henry  M.  Miller "  "  "  Nov.  23, 

485.  Isaac  B.  Lott "  "  "  Mch.   1, 

486.  Mary  Smith  (Mrs.) "  "  "  May  12, 

487.  William  Thompson Sept.  7,  1845  June  8, 

4S8.  Hannah  Henderson   (Edzvard  T.) Nov.  2,  1845  Nov.  23, 

489.  John  M.  Grant "  "  "  May    1, 

490.  George  Walker  "  "  "  Aug.  9, 

491.  Minerva  H.  Walker  (George) "  "  "  Aug.  9, 

492.  Joseph  P.  Thompson  "  "  "  Nov.  15, 

493.  Lucy  O.  Thompson  (Joseph  P.) "  "  "  Jan.  27, 

494.  Charles  Williams "  "  "  Dec.  12, 

495.  Eliza  Williams   (Charles) "  "  "  Dec.  12, 

496.  William  C.  Gilman "  "  "  Mch.    1, 

497.  Eliza  Gilman   (William  C.) "  "  "  Mch.   1, 

498.  Elizabeth  C.  Gilman   "  "  "  Mch.   1, 

499.  Maria  P.  Gilman "  "  "  Mch.   I, 

500.  Edward  W.  Gilman "  "  "  June    1, 

501.  Ira  A.  Thurber  Jan.  4.  1846  Nov.  24, 

502.  Huldah  Thurber   (Ira  A.) "  "  "  Nov.  24, 

503.  Sarah  Jane  Low  "  "  "  Dec.    8, 

504.  Sarah  H.  Springer  (wid.  John)   (Mrs. 

James  W.  Redfield) *'  "  "  Nov.  8, 

505.  Gideon  Watts  Sherman   "  "  "  June  22, 

506.  George  S.  Winchester "  "  "  Nov.  23, 

507.  Sarah  Rozat    (Guillaume) "  "  "  Aug.  23, 

508.  Noah  Gilmore   Mch.  1,  1846  Nov.  12, 

509.  Horace  R.  Latimer "  "  "  June   2, 

510.  Mary  B.  Latimer  (Horace  R.) "  "  "  June   2, 

511.  Marie  Louise  Newlin "  "  "  June  24, 

512.  Abigail  Ann  Wait  (Joseph) "  "  "  June  27, 

513.  Joseph    Wait,  Jr "  "  "  June  27, 

514.  Thomas  John  Burger "  "  "  Oct.    4, 

515.  Mary  Ann  Smith   (James) "  "  "  Nov.  16, 

516.  Oliver  P.  Scovell  May  3,  1846  Oct.  26, 

517.  Edward  Burchard "  "  "  Nov.  8, 

518.  Henry  G.  Judd   "  "  "  April  — 

519.  Clinton  Clapp  "  "  "  Jan.   12, 

520.  Albert  L.  Comstock "  "  "  Dec.  27, 

521.  Catharine  M.  Comstock  (Albert  L.)..  "  "  "  Dec.  27, 

522.  Sarah  E.  Comstock "  "  "  Dec.  27, 

523.  James  E.  H.  Wallin "  "  "  April  10, 

524.  Elizabeth  K.  Wallin  (James  E.  H.)..  "  "  "  April  10, 

525.  Henry  A.   Merrill   "  "  "  July    9, 

526.  Sarah  Merrill   (Henry  A.) "  "  "  July    9, 

266 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received. 

527.  Marilla  W.  Hall   (Francis  M.) May  3,  1846 

528.  Phila  A.  Williams  (David  S.) "  "  " 

529.  Ward  A.  Work  "  "  " 

530.  James  L.  Ensign  "  "  " 

531.  Andrew  W.  Rose  "  "  " 

532.  Mary  F.  Davidson  (Amintor) "  "  " 

533.  Elisa  Moseley  (IVilliam  H.) "  "  " 

534.  Martha  Jane  Moore  (Mrs.  Scott) "  "  " 

535.  Harriet  L.  Gilman  "  "  " 

536.  Mary  Ellen    Vallar    (Mrs.   Ferdinand 

Engeholm)    "  "  " 

537.  Sarah  N.  Smith "  "  " 

538.  Catharine  Clifton  (Mrs.  Van  Tuyl) . .  "  "  " 

539.  Susan  H.  Cass "  "  " 

540.  Edgar  W.  Davies July  5,  1846 

541.  Edward  S.  Pinney  "  "  " 

542.  John  B.  Alvord  "  "  " 

543-  William  A.  Morgan «  "  " 

544.  Roxana  Morgan  (William  A.) "  "  " 

545.  Edwin  S.  Pierce  "  "  " 

546.  Charles  H.   Waterbury  "  "  " 

547.  Joseph  T.  Whitlock  "  "  " 

548.  Frederick  G.  Huntington  "  "  " 

549.  Emanuel  Conart  "  "  " 

550.  Bruce  Pierce "  "  " 

551.  James  H.  Hoyt  "  "  " 

552.  James  Redmond "  "  " 

553.  Margaret  Place   (Robert) "  "  " 

554.  Abby  A.  Bush  "  "  " 

555.  Rebecca  H.  Pearl  (Mrs.  Cady) "  "  " 

556.  Elisabeth  Laidlazv  "  "  " 

557.  Louisa  C.  Halsey  (Mrs.  McCarty) "  "  " 

558.  Mary  Frances  Camp  (Mrs.  Mott) "  "  " 

559.  Ann  Eliza  Camp  "  "  " 

560.  Mary  P.   Watkinson   "  "  " 

561.  Jane  F.  Clifton  (Mrs.  Williams) "  "  " 

562.  Charlotte  Hale  "  "  " 

563.  Christian  R.   Hatfield   "  "  " 

564.  Frances  S.  Minor  (Mrs.  Heath) "  "  " 

565.  John  S.  Batchelder Sept.  6,  1846 

566.  William  S.  Miller "  "  " 

567.  Frances  A.  Boyd  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

568.  Ann   Crosby   (Mrs.) "  "  " 

569.  Jane  Anderson  (Mrs.  David  Gibbs)  . . .  "  "  " 

570.  Frederick  Lockwood  "  "  " 

571.  Lewis  T.  Halsey "  "  " 

572.  Ira  E.  Thurber "  "  " 

573.  George  Frederick  Scott "  "  " 

574.  L.   Ophelia  Benedict   (Henry  N.) "  "  " 

575.  Mary  Isabella  Dolson  "  "  " 

576.  Julia  Ann  Barton  "  "  " 

577.  Julia  E.  Ritter  (Mrs.  Chase) "  "  " 

578.  Caroline  M.  Titus  (Mrs.  Smith) "  "  " 

579.  Mary  Ann  Titus  (Mrs.  Simms) "  "  " 

580.  Anna  D.  Smith  "  "  " 

267 


When  Removed. 

Dec.  19,  ] 

8S4 

April  22,  ] 

852 

Aug.  3,    ] 

848 

Oct.    9,    ] 

854 

June  25,  ] 

852 

Nov.  18,  ] 

847 

Jan.   12, 

852 

Feb.  24, 

852 

Mch.   1,   ] 

849 

Mch.  26, 

[8S2 

April  20, 

[890 

Feb.  24, 

852 

Nov.  30, 

1852 

Mch.  20, 

t849 

Jan.  22, 

[8^0 

Jan.  25, 

[848 

May  31, 

[849 

May  31, 

[849 

Oct.  30, 

[849 

Feb.  19, 

[861 

Sept.  2, 

[851 

July    2, 

t847 

Dec.  27, 

[850 

Aug.  31, 

[852 

July  13, 

[848 

Nov.   7, 

[848 

July  20, 

[848 

Feb.  20, 

1855 

April  29, 

[8^2 

May  16, 

1857 

May  — , 

i«53 

Nov.   7, 

1854 

Aug.  — , 

1865 

Feb.    3, 

1852 

Jan.   11, 

1856 

Oct.  28, 

I8s2 

Feb.    2, 

1850 

Jan.  21, 

1859 

May  30, 

i8so 

Oct.    21, 

18^2 

July   4, 

1848 

Feb.  19, 

1849 

April  12, 

1861 

May  13, 

1872 

Nov.  — , 

1853 

Oct.  12, 

1847 

Feb.  24, 

1852 

July    8, 

1854 

Mch.  19, 

1 861 

April  15, 

1848 

Oct.  26, 

i8s,3 

Nov.  28, 

1804 

April  — , 

1861 

Oct.  II, 

1864 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

j^g                           Name.                                                   When  Received.   When  Removed. 

581'.  Lucy  Morse  (Mrs.) Nov.  1,  1846  April  29,  "r 

582.  Cornelia  Ensign  (Mrs.) Oct.    3. 

583.  Henry  M.  Halsey  "  "  "  Oct.  28, 

584.  Mary  E.  Parker  (Mrs.) Mch.  7,  1847  April  22, 

585.  Mary    C.    Fellows    (wid.    Thomas    C. 

Brown)    "  "  "  Dec.  21, 

586.  Susan  T.  Sears   (Mrs.) "  "  "  June  24, 

587.  Edward  E.  Brown  "  "  "  June  12, 

588.  Lucy  Batchelder  (Mrs.) "  "  "  May  30, 

589.  James  M.  West  "  "  "  May  30, 

590.  Mary  Demarest   (Mrs. ) "  "  May  26, 

591.  Alexander  J.  Henderson "  "  "  May  21, 

592.  Maria  Gill  (Mrs.  Clark) "  "  "  May   8, 

593.  Mary  Ann  Miller  (Mrs.  Becker) 

594.  William  Finlay  May  2,  1847  May    I, 

595.  John  Brozun   "  "  Aug.  22, 

596.  Elizabeth  T.  Judd "  "  "  April  17, 

597.  Charlotte  Sturges   (Mrs.) July  4,  1847  April  29, 

598.  John  Lander July  30, 

599.  Isabella  Lander  (John) "  "  "  July  3°, 

600.  Euphemia   Lander    (Mrs.    Peter   Mc- 

Mellen)    "  "  "  July  30, 

601.  Laivrence  P.  Mott   Mch.  7,  1847  Nov.   7, 

602.  Thomas  Ozven  "  "  "  July    2, 

603.  Myron  J.  Frisbie Sept.  5,  1847  Oct.  13, 

604.  Joanna  E.  Frisbie  (wid.  Myron  J.)...      "  "  "  Dec.    8, 

605.  Anna  W.  Day  (E.  S.) "  "  "  June  9, 

606.  Aminda  T.  Hulse  "  "  "  Mch.   1, 

607.  Charles  S.  Smith "  "  "  Jan.   10, 

608.  Archibald  Henderson  "  "  "  Nov.  3, 

609.  Archibald  Campbell   Nov.  7,  1847  April  19, 

610.  Edwin  Johnson  "  May  14, 

611.  Sidney  H.  Smith "  "  "  Jan.    7, 

612.  John  Williamson  "  "  "  Jan.  20, 

613.  Catharine  Williamson   (John) "  "  "  Jan.  20, 

614.  William  Danforth   Dec.  28,  1847  Jan.    4, 

615.  Lydia  Danforth  (William) "  "  July   9, 

616.  Frances  A.  Danforth "  "  July    9, 

617.  Lucy  Ann  Brewer  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Feb.  17, 

618.  Marcus  Mitchell    "  "  "  Mch.  27, 

619.  Betscv  Mitchell    (Marcus) "  "  "  Mch.  27, 

620.  Margaret  L.   Winnie  "  "  "  Aug.  27, 

621.  Emily  Gilman "  "  "  Mch.    1, 

622.  Oliver  W.  Himrod  Feb.  29,  1848  April  29, 

623.  Enoch  Tindall   "  "  "  Oct.    3, 

624.  Frederick  S.  Hawley  "  "  "  Mch.  15, 

625.  Calvin  Hoyt  

626.  Theodore  A.  Eaton  "  "  "  Dec.  — , 

627.  Mary  Ann  Huntington  "  "  "  May    5, 

628.  Elizabeth  A.   Van  Rypcr "  "  "  July  12, 

629.  Francis  M.  Hall  "  "  *  Dec.  19, 

630.  Harriet  Kingsbury  "  "  "  April  22, 

631.  Samuel  Hoyt   "  "  "  April  29, 

632.  Mary  Ann  Hoyt   (Cahin) "  "  " 

633.  Daniel  Coit  Gilman "  "  "  Jan.   25, 

268 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No. 
634- 
635. 
636. 
637- 
638. 

639- 
640. 
641. 
642. 
643- 
644. 
645- 
646. 

647- 
648. 
649. 
650. 
651. 
652. 
653- 
654- 
655. 
656. 
657- 
658. 
659- 
660. 
66l. 
662. 
663. 
664. 
665. 
666. 
667. 
668. 
669. 
670. 
671. 
672. 
673- 
674. 
675- 
676. 

677. 
678. 

679. 
680. 
681. 
682. 
683. 
684. 
685. 
686. 
687. 


Name.                                                   When  Received.  When  Removed. 

William  Blewett   Feb.  29,  1848  Nov.  9,  1867 

Martha  L'Amie   (Mrs.) "  "      "  Mch.   1,1858 

J.  S.  Denman  (Mrs.) May  1,  1848  May  25,  1852 

Mary  Snell    (Mrs.) "  "      "  Nov.  25,  1866 

Mary  Ann  Osborn   (Mrs.) "  "      "  Nov.  23,  1852 

Mary  Ann  Snell  (Mrs.  Lane) "  "      "  June  21,  1884 

John  W.  Cass "  "       "  Nov.  30,  1852 

Jacob  Brinkerhoff  June  27,  1848  Mch.  18,  1865 

William  F.  King ,.     "  "      "  1857 

Horace  Gould    "  "      "  June   7,    1850 

James  D.Smith  "  "      "  Mch.  31,  1897 

Sarah  Gould    (Horace) "  "       "  June   7,    1850 

Angeline  Dolson  (Gabriel  L.) "  "      "  Jan.  26,   1854 

Abigail  Plummer  (Mrs.) "  "      "  Sept.  17,  1850 

Wilhemena  Smith   (Mrs.) "  "      "  Oct.   11,   1864 

Sarah  Jane  Morse  (Samuel  R.) "  "      "  Jan.   13,   1850 

Augusta  Wood "  "      "  Oct.  23,  1851 

Alexander  Anderson  "  "      "  July  25,   i860 

Jacob  Brinkerhoff,  Jr "  "      "  April  10,  1851 

Andrew  Jordan   "  "       "  June    1,    1852 

Henry  Smith  Aug.  29,  1848  Jan.    6,    1850 

Margaret  H.  Smith  (Henry) "  "      "  Jan.    6,    1871 

Benjamin  Lockwood   "  Feb.  15,  1851 

Eliza  Lockwood   (Benjamin) "  "      "  Feb.  15,  1851 

Archibald  Hyatt   "  "      "  Mch.   1,   1858 

Sarah  Fleming  (James) Oct.  31,  1848  Jan.   10,   1859 

Ezra  W.  Goodrich   "  "       "  April  5,   1850 

Norman  A.  Calkins  "  "      "  Dec.  22,  189S 

Laura  West  (John  C.) Jan.  2,    1849    Aug.   7,   1851 

Thomas  Davies   "  "       "  Jan.   12,    1852 

Jane  M.  Benedict  (Charles  M.  B.)...     "  "      "  Jan.  27,   1853 

Elsie  M.  Winnie  "  "      "  June  27,  1849 

Mary  Ann  Davies   (Thomas) "  "  Jan.   12,   1852 

Nathaniel  Shiverick   "  "       "  Nov.   8    1853 

Esther  Evans   (Mrs.) Feb.  27,  1849  April  16,  185 1 

Joseph  Wills  "  "      "  Feb.    5,    1850 

Susan  Sinnixson   (Mrs.) "  "      "  April  29,  1856 

Alpheus  Colburn "  "      "  Mch.   1,1858 

William  D.  Russell  "  "      "  Jan.    13,   1853 

Samuel  Delamater   May    1,    1849    July  6,    1852 

William  H.  Niles  "  "       "  May  20,  185 1 

Thomas  Hinwood "  "      "  Nov.  16,  1855 

Catharine  Stroble  "  "      "  Feb    24,  1852 

Martin  E.  Kingman  "  "  April  19,  1853 

Mary   C.    Parker    (Mrs.    William   H. 

Newhouse)   "  "  June  30,  1863 

Theodore  Sturges  "  "      "  Feb.  24,  1852 

Elisabeth  Herring "  "      "  Nov.  23,  1852 

Catharine  A.  Whittlesey "  "  Dec.  10,  1879 

Ann  Eliza  Meeker   (Mrs.) June  26,  1849  Mch.  15,  1853 

Theodore  L.  Atkins  "  "      "  July    h    1852 

Catharine  Magee  "  "      "  Dec.  24,  1861 

John  B.  Buxton "  "      '  Sept.  25,  1851 

Joseph  Heath  "  "  Feb.  24,  1863 

Mary  Elisabeth  Testman  "  Nov.  8,   1858 

269 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

■     _,       ,        ,**«?*;,  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

0^8.  Charles  M.  Miller June  26,  1849  Mch.  23,  1852 

689.  Alexander  Magee   "      "      "  Jan.   11,'  1871 

690.  Elizabeth  R.  Collins  (Mrs.) "      "       "  June  28,  1853 

691.  Christina  Miller  (Mrs.  C.  R.  Hatfield)     "      "      "  Aug.  27',  1862 

692.  William  B.  Shotwell  Aug.  28,  1849  Oct.   18,'  1850 

693.  Robert  Ayre '  Aug.  30,  1853 

694.  Louise  Frances  Parker  (Mrs.  Edward 

Tozvnscnd)   "      "      *'  June  30,  1863 

695.  James  Bowles "      "      "  May  20,  185 1 

696.  Anne  P.  Bowles  (James) "      "       "  May  20,  1851 

697.  Nancy  Campbell   Oct.    30,1849  Feb.  28^  1851 

698.  CharlotteS.  Whitlock  "      "      "  Sept.  2,   1851 

699.  Elizabeth  D.   Thompson  "      "      "  Dec.    5,'   1850 

700.  William  D.  Smith Dec.  31,  1849  April  20,  1858 

701.  Sarah  W.  Smith  (William  D.) "       "       "  April  20  1858 

702.  Joseph  Chapin   "      "      "  June  12,' 1857 

703.  James  K.  Warren  "      "      "  May  14,  1851 

704.  Mary  S.  B.  Bradley  (Moses  B.) "      "      "  Jan.    9,    1851 

705.  James  Edward  Pringle  "       "      "  May  15,  1855 

706.  Harriet  M.  Jones  (Mrs.) "       "      "  Sept.  10,  1853 

707.  Marianne  Inwood  "      "      "  Nov.   2/18-4 

708.  Georgianna  M.  Bartlctt   (Amos  G.)..Feb.  26,  1850  July  17,  1856 

709.  Thomas  Rutherford  "       "       "  Nov    11    1862 

710.  David  D.  Ayres "      "      "  Jan.    9/1855 

711.  Matthew  W.  Starr  "       "      "  April  14,  1869 

712.  Mary  M.  Starr  (Matthew  W.) "      "      "  April  14,  1869 

713-  Amos  G.  Bartlett "       "      "  Jan    17    1856 

714-  George  Taylor  "      "      "  Nov.  24,  1852 

715-  Maria   Wood   (Ira) April  30,  1850  Oct.  23,  185 1 

710.  Samuel  Ewing  "      "       "  jg-g 

717-  Elizabeth  Taylor  (Mrs.)    .'     "      "      "  ^57 

718.  Emma  Taylor  (wid.  Win.  H.  Gilson) .      "      "      "  Oct.  30    1878 
719-  Amelia   Taylor    (wid.   John   A.    Free- 

"ian>  :•■••• "      "      "  Oct.    8,    1862 

720.  Mary  Snnond "       "       "  June  24,  1S51 

721.  E.  L.  Robinson  (Russel  W.) "      "      "  Oct     5     1881 

722.  James  Edwin  Vickridge Julv    1,1850  May    1!    1854 

723.  Mary  Van  Duyn  "      "      "  Mch.  24,  1852 

724.  George  P.  Tindall  "      "      "  Aug.  14,  1854 

725.  Benjamin  D.  Evans  "      "      "  May    1     1854 

726.  Margaretta   Testman   (Mrs.  Frederick 

Adams)    «      «      «  April  6    1850 

727.  Ann  M.  Dayton  (Mrs.  Jas.  Redford) . .  Aug.  26,  1850  Feb.   12',  i8=;8 

728.  Joseph  EWoodbridge  Oct.    29,1850  June  2,   1853 

729.  Sarah  E.  Woodbridge  (Joseph  E.)...      "       "      "  June   2     1853 

730.  George  Brown       «      »      "  Dec.    4,'    1852 

731.  Emma  Brown  (George)    "      "      "  May  26,  1854 

732.  George  B.  Dickenson Dec.  31,  1850  Mch.  — ,  1853 

733-  Clinton  P.  Scoville "      «       «  Oct    28    1856 

734-  John  A.  Johnston  "      '•      •'  Sept.  io',  18 ;i 

735-  Anna  G.  Johnston  (John  A.) "      "      "  Sept  -»6  1851 

736.  Abagail  Summer  ( Mrs. )   "      "      "  Nov.  28,'  1894 

737-  Morns  J    hranklin  Feb.  26,  185 1  Jan.    5,    i8q8 

738.  Azcrbah  C.  Slupman  "       "      "  Mch   —   1861 

739-  George  Lawrence   "      "      "  June  25,'  185 1 

270 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.                          Name.                                                   When  Received.  When  Removed. 

740.  Walter  Jackson  Feb.  26,1851  Feb.  27,  1855 

741.  Sarah  Lawrence   {William) "  "  "  Dec.  15,  1851 

742.  Genet  Jackson   ( Walter) "  "  "  Feb.  27,  1855 

743.  Joseph  Woodbridge April  29,  1851  Mch.  23,  1852 

744.  Charles  L.  Woodbridge "  "  "  June   2,    1853 

745.  M.  Isabella  S.  Hale  (David  A.) "  "  "  Sept.  7,   i860 

746.  David  Owen "  "  June  25,  1856 

747.  Halpem  Albert "  "  "  Dec.  30,  1862 

748.  Ephraim  Menachem  Epstein "  "  "  April  23,  1857 

749.  George  W.  Whiting "  "  "  Jan.   19,   1858 

750.  Charles  G.  Parsons "  "  "  Mch.   1,   1858 

751.  Dorothy  Moses  (Aaron) July  I,  1851  Oct.   13,   1869 

752.  Olive  C.  Moses  (John) "  "  "  Dec.  — ,  1865 

753.  Amos  Temple "  "  "  July    5,    1853 

754.  Luther  Halsey  Gulick "  "  "  Aug.  24,  1852 

755-  Richard  C.  Dunn "  "  "  April  6,  1854 

756.  Mary  E.  Wilbor  (William  H.) "  "  "  April  27,  1854 

757.  James  Short  "  "  "  Feb.  14,  1855 

758.  John  Short   "  "  "  April  29,  1856 

759.  Henry  Judson Sept.   1,  1851  Jan.   16,  1852 

760.  Sarah  F.  Bowers "  "  Aug.  27,  1861 

761.  George  Jackson  "  "  "  June  29,  1852 

762.  Edward  S.  Wells  "  "  "  June  30,  1863 

763.  Joel  M.  Howard "  "  "  Sept.  26,  1854 

764.  George  M.  Stites "  "  "  Mch.   1,   1874 

765.  Maria  L.  Stites  (George  M.) "  "  "  Mch.   5,  1878 

766.  Henry  C.  Conkling "  "  "  Dec.  28,  1854 

767.  Augustus  Gaylord Oct.  28,  1851  June  6,    1854 

768.  Martha  Gaylord   (Augustus) "  "  "  June   6,    1854 

769.  Phillis  Cooper  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Mch.  27,  1881 

770.  Richard  Edwards   "  "  "  April  29,  1856 

771.  Jane  Edwards  (Richard) "  "  "  April  29,  1856 

772.  Esther  Sears "  "  "  July    1,    1854 

773.  William  Lord  "  "  "  Mch.  — ,  1874 

774-  William  Holdridge  "  "  "  May  24,  1855 

775-  Eliza  G.  Holdridge  (William) "  "  "  May  24,  1855 

776.  Henry  C.  Hall "  "  "  April  11,  1873 

777.  Cornelius  Neafie   "  "  "  Nov.  30,  1852 

778.  Sarah  Ann  Lord  (wid.  William) "  "  "  Nov.    3,    1880 

779.  Joseph  Wills Dec.  30,  1851  Sept.  17,  1853 

780.  Smith  Curtis "  "  "  June  9,    1852 

781.  Elizabeth  Frances  Gaines "  "  "  Oct.    3,    1853 

782.  Moses  Cristy "  "  "  Aug.  20,  1861 

783.  Harriet  Cristy  (Moses)    "  "  "  Aug.  20,  1861 

784.  Jane  Menair  (James) "  "  "  Feb.  — ,  1867 

785.  William  E.  Whiting "  "  "  June  5,   1858 

786.  Ann  L.  Whiting  (William  E.) "  "  "  June   5,    1858 

787.  Charles  Clark "  "  "  July    1,    1856 

788.  Diana  Caesar  (wid.  Friend) "  "  "  Jan.  25,   1859 

789.  Thomas  Murdock  "  "  "  Mch.  22,  1853 

790.  Jane  Hamilton  Murdock  (Thomas)..  "  "  "  Mch.  22,  1853 

791.  Isabella  Graham  Ritter   (Mrs.  Henry 

L.Stevenson)    "  "  "  April  10,  1866 

792.  Augustus  H.  Farlin  "  "  "  Nov.    1,   1853 

793-  John  M.  Wilcox  "  "  "  Nov.  6,   1855 

271 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.                          Name.                                                   When  Received. 

794.  Anna  Maria  Wilcox  (John  M.) Dec.  30,1851 

795.  Josiah  F.   Wright  "  " 

796.  Sarah  Mitchell  "  "  " 

797.  Elizabeth  IV.  Forbes  "  "  " 

798.  Harriet  Elizabeth  Chapin  (Jos.  W.)..     "  "  " 

799.  Mary  B.  Bennett  (wid.  Henry) "  "  " 

800.  James  Duff  Mch.   I,  1852 

801.  Martha  Duff   (James) "  " 

802.  Susan   Wills    (Joseph) "  "  " 

803.  Clement  E.  Beebe  "  "  " 

804.  Rebecca  Story  "  "  " 

S05.  John  A.  Seymore  "  "  " 

806.  John  Vernon "  "  " 

807.  Alonzo  S.  Ball  "  "  " 

808.  Eliza  W.  Ball  (Alonzo  S.) "  "  " 

809.  Mary    C.    Hosier    (Mrs.    Norman   A. 

Calkins)  "  "  " 

810.  Moses  Brown  "  "  " 

81 1.  Thomas  D.  Conover "  "  " 

812.  Jerome  Husted "  "  " 

813.  Edwin  F.  Strickland  "  "  " 

814.  Ellen  Smith "  "  " 

815.  Sarah  Smith  "  "  " 

816.  Elizabeth  Henderson   (Mrs.  James  D. 

Smith)   "  "  " 

817.  Huldah  G.  Brown "  '*  " 

818.  Joseph  Enscoe   "  "  " 

819.  Beulah  Y.  Terry  (wid.  Samuel) April  27,  1852 

820.  John  A.  Sterry "  " 

821.  Charles  E.  Latimer "  "  " 

822.  Frances  Emeline   Terry   (Mrs.   Oliver 

Barratt)  "  "  " 

823.  T.  F.  Tracy "  "  " 

824.  Lydia  D.  Parker  June  29,  1852 

825.  James  H.  Grovestien "  "  " 

826.  Anna  V.  Grovestien  (James  H.) "  "  " 

827.  Mary  McBride  (wid.  William) "  "  " 

828.  Edgar  J.  Day "  "  " 

829.  Richard  Augustus  Dorman "  "  " 

830.  Maria  Ritter  (Mrs.  John  D.  Manning).     "  "  " 

831.  Sarah  Wood  (wid.  Samuel) Aug.  31,  1852 

832.  Sarah  Frances  Benedict  Dec.  28,  1852 

833.  Charlotte  G.  Conner " 

834-  John  West  Mch.  1,  1853 

835.  Langdon  S.  Ward "  "  " 

836.  Isabella  Draper   (Henry) "  "  " 

$37-  Henry  E.  Staniford  April  26,  1853 

838.  Patrick  James  Golden "  "  " 

839.  Mary  Ann  Golden  (Patrick  J.) "  "  " 

840.  Maria  Sumner  (John)    June  28,  1853 

841.  Albert  L.  Comstock "  "  " 

842.  Catharine  N.  Comstock  (Albert  L.)..     "  " 
843-  Sarah  E.  Reed   (Jehiah)    "  "  " 

844.  Rachel  Kimmons Aue  10  iS^l 

845.  Pliny  F.  Whiting  "  "  " 

272 


When  Removed. 

Feb.  20,  1855 
April  27,  1852 
Mch.  27,  1855 
July  16,  1887 
Nov.  22,  i860 
Oct.  28,  1856 
June  29,  1854 
June  29,  1854 
Sept.  17,  1S53 
April  20,  1854 
Dec.  26,  1854 
July  19,  1855 
Feb.  27,  1855 
Oct.  25,  1853 
Oct.  25,  1853 


May  26,  1854 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Dec.  10,  i860 
June  1,  18^4 
June  28,  1866 


April  24,  1871 
May  26,  1854 
Oct.  28,  1856 
Oct.  8,  1862 
May  1,  1865 
Dec.  7,  1852 

Mch.  14,  1894 
Nov.  23,  1854 
June  7,  1855 
June  7,  1854 
June  7.  1854 
Aug.  16,  1853 
Nov.  28,  1894 

June  10,  1897 
Nov.  24,  1852 
Dec.  iq,  1856 
June  14,  1854 
Mch.  15,  1859 
Oct.  9,  1854 
Dec.  7,  1870 
Mch.  4,  1856 
June  26,  1855 
Sept.  4,  1855 
June  16,  1856 
Aug.  30,  1854 
Aug.  30,  1854 
Aug.  30,  1854 
Oct.  28,  1856 
Oct.  11,  1864 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No.                          Name                                                   When  Received.   When  Removed. 

846.  William  Corp  Nov.  1,  1853 

847.  Sarah  Ann  Corp  (William) " 

848.  Homer  W.  Keeler '. "  "  " 

849.  William  H.  Colton "  "  " 

850.  Ann  Hartshorn  (Philander)    Dec.  26,1853 

851.  Curtis  Boynton   "  "  " 

852.  Elizabeth  G.  Boynton "  "  " 

853.  William  B.  Boynton "  "  " 

854.  Samuel  Holmes  "  "  " 

855.  William  B.  Holmes "  "  " 

856.  John  S.  Gridley "  "  " 

857.  Elizabeth  Schapps  (wid.  Cornelius) ..."  "  " 

858.  Camillus  Farrand  "  "  " 

859.  Rebecca  M.  Snyder  (John  W.) "  "  " 

860.  Eliza  Jane  Palmer  (C.  W.) Feb.  27,1854 

861.  Jeanette  Ellen  Mclntyre "  "  " 

862.  Philinda  P.  Jones  (Mrs.  G.  B.  Cowper)      "  "  " 

863.  Joseph  Greatbach "  "  " 

864.  Edward  Pratt May  1,  1854 

865.  Sarah  B.  Pratt  (wid.  Edward) "  "  " 

866.  Edmund  W.  Clark  "  "  " 

867.  Thomas  E.  Cornwall "  "  " 

868.  Elizabeth     Gilman     Thompson     (wid. 

Joseph  P.)   "  "  " 

869.  Amzi  Lewis  Camp  "  "  " 

870.  Amelia  M.  Girling  {Robert) "  "  " 

871.  Mary  Jane  Henderson "  "  " 

872.  Edward  Smith  Ward June  27,  1854 

873.  Catharine  Matilda  Peck   (Benjamin) .     "  "  " 

874.  Jacob  Brinkerhoff,  Jr Oct.  31,  1854 

875.  Susan  Mayereau    (Bernard  A.) "  "  " 

876.  Isaac  W.  Barnum "  "  " 

877.  Jeanette  Barnum  (Isaac  W.) "  "  " 

878.  William  H.  Raymond  "  "  " 

879.  Louisa  Highfield  "  "  " 

880.  Mary  Middleton    (John) Jan.  2,  1855 

881.  William  Gilchrist   "  "  " 

882.  Levi  A.  Fuller  Feb.  27,  1855 

883.  Thomas  Warriner "  "  " 

884.  James  Davis  "  "  " 

885.  Louise  Jane  Davis  (wid.  James) "  "  " 

886.  William  P.  Tuttle "  "  " 

887.  Abraham  Van  Tassel "  "  " 

888.  Robert  Rodger May  1,  1855 

889.  Jane  Shields  Rodger  (Robert) "  "  " 

890.  Electa  M.Sheldon  (wid.  BerthierM.).     "  "  " 

891.  Sarah  Smith  (J.  Gordon) "  "  " 

892.  Charlotte  Landsdown  (James  P.) "  "  " 

893.  Isabella  J.  Camp  (Mrs.  Alonso  Austin)     "  "  " 

894.  Nathan  Henry  Camp "  "  " 

895-  William  Wood "  "  " 

896.  William  Montfort "  "  " 

897.  Oliver  S.  Atkins "  "  " 

898.  Henry  W.  Hulse "  "  " 

899.  Margaret  Salters  (Mrs.) "  " 

273 


Feb.  28, 

[854 

Feb.  28, 

[854 

Jan.    2, 

[857 

Sept.  14, 

[854 

Sept.  18, 

t857 

Oct.  — , 

[8s8 

Mch.  8, 

185Q 

Nov.  4, 

[8^6 

April  2, 

[870 

June   2, 

[870 

Mch.  18, 

[856 

Dec.  14, 

[863 

July  22, 

1863 

June   8, 

[858 

Feb.  19, 

1858 

April  8, 

[861 

Jan.  20, 

i860 

Dec.  — , 

[857 

April  4, 

[861 

June   5, 

[866 

Dec.  11, 

[855 

Nov.  13, 

1854 

Dec.  24, 

[892 

Mch.  11, 

[8qo 

Jan.   10, 

[867 

Aug.  29, 

1854 

Sept.  16, 

[855 

April  15, 

t859 

Dec.  21, 

[8Q3 

Dec.  25, 

1857 

Mch.  28, 

[857 

Mch.  28, 

[857 

May  20, 

[862 

Feb.  24, 

[863 

July  12, 

[867 

Dec.  16, 

[858 

Nov.  26, 

[8S9 

Oct .  4, 

[859 

Mch.  11, 

[882 

Dec.   8, 

[807 

Nov.  6, 

t857 

Mch.  8, 

[861 

Aug.  9, 

1859 

Aug.  9. 

[859 

June  13, 

[856 

Jan.  25, 

[856 

April  9, 

[860 

May   9, 

[871 

Sept.  27, 

[864 

Oct.  13, 

[855 

Mch.  7, 

[858 

Jan.  25, 

[856 

Mch.  23, 

1858 

Oct.  25, 

t857 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.  Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

900.  Edward  B.  Hatch  June  26,  1855  June  29,  i860 

901.  James  Bedford  Aug.  28,  1855  Feb.  12,  1858 

902.  Frederick  S.  Boyd   "  "       "  Mch.  3,    1896 

903.  Hannah  Bissell  (wid.  Samuel  M.)....     "  "      "  Mch.  27,  1868 

904.  Margaret  A.  Curtis   (Edwin) Oct.  30,  1855  Mch.  6,  1878 

905.  Charles  A.  Alden  "  "       "  April  25,  1856 

906.  Maria  Owen   (David) "  "      "  June  20,  1856 

907.  Cornelia  L.  Turner  (J.  Hart) "  "       "  April  14,  1864 

908.  M.  Jeanette  Farrand   (Camillus) "  "      "  Jan.   n,   1861 

909.  Christina  L.  Link  (Frederick) "  "       " 

910.  Frederick  Link "  "       " 

911.  Elisabeth  Merritt   (Andrezv) "  "      "  Oct.    4,    1859 

912.  David  Robbins Dec.  31,  1855  July  — ,  1858 

913.  Relief  Robbins   (David) "  "      "  Mch.  30,  1876 

914.  Anson  Blake  Feb.  26,  1856  Nov.  29,  1864 

915.  Mary  C.  Blake   (Anson)    "  "       "  Nov.  29,  1864 

916.  Benjamin  Barr "  "      "  Aug.    5,   1856 

917.  William  Henderson   "  "      "  Aug.  27,  1861 

918.  Mary  Ann  Linton  (wid.  John) "  "       "  Oct.    4,    1859 

919.  Lydia  Ann  Cooper  (Mrs.  John  Oata- 

Hna)   "  "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

920.  Sarah  Thompson  (John  W.) April  29,  1856  May  11,  1867 

921.  Clementine  D.  Rutherford  (Thomas).     "  "      "  Nov.   8,    1862 

922.  Henry  C.  Hal  sey "  "      "  June  28,  1858 

923.  Elizabeth  Halsey   (Henry  C.) "  "      "  June  28,  1858 

924.  Amanda  H.  F.  Hall  (wid.  Henry  C.)..      "  "      "  Jan.  24,   1S94 

925.  Harriet  Brewster "  "      "  Mch.  9,   1886 

926.  Robert  Allen "  "       "  July  _    1880 

927.  Mary  E.  Wilbor  (William  H.) July  1,   1856  Nov.   6,    1866 

928.  Hiram  F.  Beebe  "  "       "  April  14,  1869 

929.  Rebecca  M.  Beebe  (Hiram  F.) "  "      "  April  14,  1869 

930.  William  C.  Hickok "  "      "  April  14,  1869 

931-  Sarah  E.  Hickok   (William  C.) "  "      "  April  14   1869 

932.  Elizabeth  P.  Taylor "  "      "  Oct.    2,    i860 

933-  Clement  E.  Beebe "  "       "  Dec.    8^    1857 

934-  David  N.  Beebe "  "      "  Oct.  20,  i860 

935-  Robert  Ferguson  "  "      "  june  28,  1864 

936.  Mary  Harding  (James) "  "      "  Mch.  25,  1859 

937-  Maria  Connolly  (James) Sept.  1,  1856  Jan.  17,  1890 

938.  Charles  C.  Converse "  "      "  May   6     1862 

939-  E.  C.  Benton Oct.  28,  1856  Mch.  6,  1866 

940.  Benjamin  Howard  "  "      "  Jan    30    1867 

941-  Mary  Brewster  (Nathan) "  "      "  July  I7'   ^57 

942.  Sarah  Taylor  (James) "  "      "  Nov   17   1865 

943-  John  Wightman "  "       "  Mch.  26,  1858 

944-  John  M.  Grant "  "      "  Oct    28    1856 

945-  Jesse  Carpenter  Dec.  30,  1856  Jan.  20,'  i860 

946.  Abagail  H.  Carpenter  (Jesse) "  "       "  Jan.  20,   i860 

947-  Isabella  D.  Marsh  (Joseph  G.) "  "      "  May   4     1858 

948.  Thomas  Jones "  "      «  Feb.  24,  1863 

949.  Alvan  H.  Turner "  "      "  Mch    9    1867 

950.  Mary  G.  Holmes  (Samuel) "  "      "  April  20,  1870 

951-  Franklin  Stebbias  "  "      "  Dec    28    1858 

952.  George  L.  Allen   "  "      «  Oct.'  16,'  1857 

953-  barah  W.  Turner  (wid.  Abram  H.) . . .  Feb.  24,  1857  Dec.  15,  1886 

274 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


1857 


1857 
1857 


29,  1! 


1858 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

954.  Joshua  B.  Hall April  20,  1857 

955.  David  Fitch  

956.  Levi  M.  Bates  

957.  Martha  A.  Bates  {Levi  M.) 

958.  Alonzo  E.  Austin  

959.  T.  L.  Snyder  June  26 

960.  Julia  L.  Snyder  (T.  L.) 

961.  Edwin  S.  Pierce  

962.  John  W.  Crane,  Jr Aug.  28 

963.  James  G.  Caldwell Oct.  23 

964.  Eliza  Caldwell  (wid.  James  G.) " 

965.  Wallace  E.  Caldwell   " 

966.  Corinth  Caldwell   (Wallace  E.) " 

967.  Julia  Reed  Davis  (Samuel  R.) Dec. 

968.  Sarah  Jane  Peterson  " 

969.  Rosetta  M.  Wright  (wid.  Isaac) " 

970.  Mary  C.  West  (William  G.) 

971.  Seth  W.  Benedict  " 

972.  Anna  Elizabeth  Benedict  (Seth  W.)..     " 

973.  Sarah  Frances  Benedict  (Mrs.  Arthur 

T.  Pierson)    

974.  Emily  J.  Benedict " 

975.  William  W.  Ingersoll Mch. 

970.  Mary  Jane  Ingersoll  (Wm.  W.) " 

977.  Sarah  R.  Fisher  (Aaron  A.) " 

978.  Harriet  Pond  (wid.  Lewis) " 

979.  Harriet  L.  Pratt   (Milo) " 

980.  Fanny  S.  Eddy  (wid.  Hiram) " 

981.  Horatio  Underwood  " 

982.  Elizabeth  M.  A.  Underwood  (Horatio)     " 

983.  Robert  Tovey " 

984.  Aaron  A.  Fisher " 

985.  Joel  E.  Fisher  " 

986.  Eliza  Pooler  {John  W.) " 

987.  Charles  Henry  Pratt  " 

988.  Austin  Abbott April  27,  1 

989.  Ellen  L.  G.  Abbott  (Austin) 

990.  George  L.  Dale  

991.  Harriet  B.  Dale   (George  L.) 

992.  Walter  B.  Sheldon  

993.  Mary  M.  Crehore  (Horace  C.) 

994.  Henry  M.  Barrowes   

995.  Mary  Jane  Wilson  (Mrs.  Munson) .  . . 

996.  Samuel  P.  Holmes  

997.  Eleanor  A.  Holmes  (Samuel  P.) 

998.  Robert  Girling  

999.  William  F.  West 

1000.  Sarah  M.  Bowker   {Mrs.   Charles  F. 
Rodgers)   

1001.  Mary  O.  Davis 

1002.  Mary  E.  Starr  {Mrs.  Ward  C.  Pardee) 

1003.  Margaret  Blackwood  

1004.  Robert  H.  Eddy 

1005.  Louisa  Lock-wood    {Mrs.   Casper  H. 
Ritter)    

275 


When  Remo 

Feb.  25, 
Oct.  4, 
Oct.  10, 
June  18, 
Mch.  25, 
June  29, 
June  29, 
Feb.  22, 
Mch.  8, 
Aug.  25, 
Dec.  13, 
Dec.  13, 
Dec.  13, 
Dec.  27, 
Sept.  II, 
May  28, 
Aug.  21, 
Nov.  10, 
Mch.  7, 

Aug.  28, 
Mch.  is, 
June  25, 
June  25, 
May  23, 
May  — , 
June  26, 
July  9, 
Mch.  21, 
Mch.  21, 
April  27, 
May  23, 
June  28, 
May  26, 
April  26, 
Mch.  6, 
Mch.  6, 
Mch.  1, 
Mch.  1, 
April  9, 


June  II, 

April  27, 
April  27, 
Oct.  19, 
Aug.  21, 

Jan.    7, 
Aug.  16, 
Feb.    5, 
Feb.  — , 
July  - 


ved. 
863 
859 
891 
890 

859 
858 
858 
862 
869 
864 
864 
864 
864 

859 
86l 
896 
860 
869 
872 

860 

871 
862 
862 
860 

866 
866 
864 
865 
865 
863 
860 
861 
880 
865 
866 


861 
864 


860 
864 
864 
887 
860 

875 
862 
867 
868 
864 


May  3,  1871 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


Xo                           Name.                                                 When  Received.  When  Removed. 

1006.  Flora  IV.  Smith April  27,  1858  Dec.  13, 

1007.  Ann  Magee  (Alexander) "  "  "  Jan.   11, 

1008.  Julia  D.  Halsey  (Mrs.  IV.  F.  Brown)  "  "  "  Mch.  6, 

1009.  Anna  Ritter  (Mrs.  Anthony  Lane)  . .  "  "  "  April  23, 

1010.  George  T.  Cook "  Sept.  9, 

ion.  Henry  Heath   Jan.  21, 

1012.  Israel  Minor,  Jr "  Jan.  21, 

1013.  John  C.  Minor "  "  "  Jan.  21, 

1014.  H.  Maria  Newcomb   (Harvey) June  29,  1858  Mch.  3, 

1015.  C.  Antoinette  Bassett  (William  D.). .  ' Mch.  31, 

1016.  Eliza  Tovey  (Robert) "  "  "  April  14, 

1017.  Mary  S.  Taylor  (Charles  F.) "  "  "  June   3, 

1018.  Caleb  B.  Knevals "  "  " 

1019.  Emeline  Minor  (wid.  George) "  "  Jan.  — , 

1020.  Edwin  Miner   "  "  "  April  8, 

1021.  Maria  Elizabeth  Miner  "  "  April  8, 

1022.  James  H.  Grovesteen "  "  "  Oct.    1, 

1023.  Anna  V.  Grovesteen  (James  H.) "  "  "  Oct.    1, 

1024.  Lafayette  Ranney   "  "  "  Feb.  15, 

1025.  Adaline  E.  Ranney   (Lafayette) "  "  "  Jan.    4, 

1026.  Mary  A.  Ranney "  "  "  April  1, 

1027.  Rufus  O.  Mason  "  "  "  Feb.  15, 

1028.  Francis  H.  Holton  "  "  "  June  24, 

1029.  Anna  M.  Holton  (Francis  H.) "  "  "  June  24, 

1030.  Sophia  Kingman  (wid.  Willard) ....  "  "  "  Feb.    2, 

1031.  Mary  E.  Allerton  "  "  "  Nov.  19, 

1032.  Abagail  Belden   (wid.  William) "  "  "  Dec.  24, 

1033.  Abagail  B.  Whelpley  (wid.  Samuel).  "  "  "  Dec.  24, 

1034.  Frederick  M.  Robinson "  "  "  Mch.  20, 

1035.  Henry  Clay  Miner  "  "  "  Mch.  29, 

1036.  Charles  A.  White  "  "  "  June  3, 

1037.  Willard  W.  White  "  "  "  Aug.   4, 

1038.  Fannie     E.     Frisbie     (Mrs.     Henry 

Hayes)  "  "  "  Jan.  12, 

1039.  Jane  E.  Van  Arsdalc  "  "  "  Jan.    7, 

1040.  Mary  A.   Taylor  (William) "  "  "  Jan.    2, 

1 041.  Harriet  Winship   (Albert  L.) "  "  "  July    1, 

1042.  Aroline  C.  Hall  "  "  "  Dec.  21, 

1043.  William  W.  Holder  "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

1044.  Jonathan  F.  Morris "  "  "  June  30, 

1045.  A.  Stoyel  Cady   Aug.  31,  1858  July  12, 

1046.  Henry  Hayes   "  "  "  Jan.   12, 

1047.  Francis  H.  Kyte  "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

1048.  Henry  Baldwin "  "  "  Oct.  27, 

1049.  Harrison  Parker  "  "  "  April  19, 

1050.  Susan  A.  Ramsdell  (Ezra  B.) "  "  "  Mch.  8, 

1051.  Richard  G.  Pardee  Nov.  I,  1858  Feb.  14, 

1052.  Rebecca  C.  Pardee  (wid.  Richard  G.)  "  "  "  Dec.  30, 

1053.  Ward  C.  Pardee  "  "  "  Feb.    5, 

1054.  Cecilia  Rumsey "  "  "  Mch.  4, 

1055.  Adon  Smith   "  "  "  May  29, 

1056.  Louisa  Smith   (Adon)    "  "  "  Jan.  — , 

1057.  Jeanette  AT.  Huntington  (wid.  Selden)  "  "  "  May   4, 

1058.  Emily  S.  Huntington  "  "  "  Nov.  15, 

1059.  Eliza  M.  Sylvester  (Fordyce) "  "  "  Jan.  28, 

276 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No. 
1060. 

1061. 
1062. 
1063. 
1064. 
1065. 
1066. 
1067. 
1068. 
1069. 
1070. 
1071. 

1072. 

I073- 
1074. 

1075- 
1076. 

1077. 
1078. 
1079. 
1080. 
108 1. 
1082. 
1083. 
1084. 
1085. 
1086. 

1087. 
1088. 
1089. 
1090. 

1091. 
1092. 
1093. 
1094. 

1095. 
1096. 
1097. 
1098. 
1099. 
1 1 00. 

HOI. 

1 102. 

1 103. 

1 104. 
IIOS. 

1 106. 

1 107. 

1 108. 

1 109. 


Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

Mary   K.   Thompson    (wid.   Artemas 

E.)  Nov.  1,  1858  Nov.  28,  1894 

Mary  L.  Thompson  (Fred.  F.) 

James  Seymour  

Elizabeth  St.  John  Seymour  (Jas.)..  "  "  April  18, 

Mary  A.  Havvley  (wid.  Aaron) "  "  Jan.   16, 

Frances  A.  Hawley "  "  "  April  25, 

Elijah  C.  Baldwin  "  "  "  Nov.  22, 

John  Danforth  "  "  "  June  30, 

Mary  Matilda  Miller  "  "  "  Sept.  11, 

Walter  Lipe  

Artemas  E.  Thompson  "  "  Feb.  26, 

Elisabeth  Denham  (Mrs.  W.  H.  Has- 
tens)    "  "  "  Dec.  12, 

Emma   Denham    (Mrs.    William   H. 

Maynard)   "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

Martha  E.  Davisson  "  "  "  April  27, 

Snowden  R.  Bayard Dec.  28,  1858  April  7, 

William  Baldwin  Fletcher "  "  "  Nov.  22, 

John  Hanson  Thompson "  "  "  Mch.  16, 

Julia  Johnson  (wid.  George) Mch.  1,  1859  Nov.   1, 

William  W.  Niles "  "  "  Mch.  29, 

Isabel  W.  Niles  (William  W.) "  "  "  Mch.  29, 

Edward  Conner "  "  June  25, 

Susan  J.  Conner "  "  "  June  25, 

William  L.  Alden  "  "  "  Nov.  26, 

L.  Almira  Robbins "  "  "  May  4, 

Ellen  Jones  "  "  "  Feb.  13, 

Elizabeth  Everett   (Thomas  R.) "  "  "  Dec.  24, 

Caroline   H.    Mclntyre    (Mrs.   David 

Weston) "  "  "  May   8, 

Sarah  A.  Pelton   (Timothy  D.) "  "  "  Aug.  — , 

Anna  Monell  (Claudius  L.) "  "  "  June   2, 

Simney  Walley   (Henry  C.) April  26,  1859  Mch.  9, 

Julia  A.  Janes  (Mrs.  David  B.  Sand- 
ford)    "  "  "  April  22, 

Charles  Gates  "  "  "  Mch.   i, 

Harriet  P.  R.  White  (Amos  C.)....  "  "  "  Oct.    9, 

Robert  H.  Robinson 

Mary  C.  Robinson  (Robert  H) "  "  "  Dec.   9, 

Susan  McGregor "  "  "  May   8, 

Oliver  Barratt  "  "  "  Mch.  14, 

Amariah  B.  Vaughan "  "  "  April  — , 

Clara  B.  I enkins  (George  W.) "  "  "  May  31, 

Francis  B.  Nicol "  "  "  Jan.    3, 

Clorinda  B.  Nicol  (wid.  Francis  B.)  .  "  "  "  Dec.  24, 

Maria  C.  Megary  (Dennis) June  28,  1859  Oct.  27, 

David  Chichester "  "  "  Jan.   11, 

Elisha  Doolittle  "  "  "  Dec.   8, 

Theresa  Doolittle  "  "  "  Dec.    8. 

Charles  Alfred  Tyler  "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

Cornelia  F.  Tyler  (Charles  A.) "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

Mary  Hyatt  (Theodore)    "  "  "  Sept.  29, 

Lucy  Hayes   (Horace) "  "  "  April  14, 

Harriet  H.  Peters  (wid.  Absalom)  ..."  "  "  May  27, 

277 


895 
884 
891 
860 
860 
874 

870 
873 


860 
863 
860 
863 
884 
869 
869 
861 
861 
862 
864 
860 
859 

872 
866 
863 
866 

862 
864 
875 
899 
882 
860 
894 
871 
861 
878 
886 
871 
861 
869 
869 
894 
894 
875 
863 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

jj0  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed, 

no.  Mary  Elizabeth  Ward   (Albert  S.) .  .June  28,  1859    Jan.    2, 

1 1 1.  Robert  A.  Williams  

112.  Catherine  D.  Williams  (Robert  A.).     "      "      " 

113.  Charles  Kay  Aug.  30,  1859 

1 14.  John  C.  Taylor Nov.  I,  1859 

115.  Lewis  Chichester  

116.  Clarissa  Chichester 

1 17.  Sarah  Chichester 

1 18.  William  Corrie 

119.  Isabella  Corrie  (William) 

120.  Celia  Weston   (Milton) "       "       " 

121.  Ellen  W.  Dorchester  (Mrs.  Rulliffson)     "      "      " 

122.  Elizabeth  H.  Gale 

123.  Sarah  Helen  Gale  

124.  Frances  P.  Sweet Dec.  27,  1859 

125.  William  S.  Adamson 

126.  Margaret  S.  Gavitt  (John  E.) "      "      " 

127.  Amanda  E.  King  (Thomas) "       "       " 

128.  Isaiah  W.  Sylvester  

129.  Charles  W.  Opdyke  

130.  Zenas  R.  Hinckley Feb.  28,  i860 

131.  Elizabeth  R.  Hinckley  (wid.  Zenas  R.)     " 

132.  Henry  Hastings  

133.  Harriet  E.  Parker  (Mrs.  William  L. 
Fisher)  

134.  Elisabeth  L.  Ellis  (Mrs.  Stanton)...     "      " 

135.  Margaret  McCombs  

136.  Edward  Riggs  May    1,  i860 

137.  Sarah  B.  Perry  (Oliver  H.) "      "      " 

138.  William  L.   Fisher "      "       " 

139.  George  Badger  

140.  William  Badger "      " 

141.  Julia   Meeker   

142.  Daniel  O.  Quimby "      " 

143.  Clara  B.  Quimby  (Daniel  O.) "       "      " 

144.  Jane  Ely  (wid.  Isaac  S.) "       "      " 

145.  James  Talcott  " 

146.  Hiram  J.  Fonda "       " 

147.  Hanna  White  "      "      " 

148.  Sarah  Washburne  (Joseph) "      "       " 

149.  Charles  Bell    June  26,  i860 

150.  Angelina  A.  Bell  (Charles) "      "       " 

151.  Mary  M.  Holmes   (Mrs.  Henry  Mc- 
Gregor)         "      "       " 

152.  Alanson  Caswell    "      "      " 

153.  Mary  Caswell    (Alanson) "      "      " 

154.  Jeremiah  Reeve  "      "       " 

155.  Mary  Reeve   (Jeremiah) "      "      " 

156.  Thomas  W.  Whittemore Aug.  28,  i860 

157.  Atossa  F.  Whittemore  (Thos.  W.)..     "       "      " 

158.  Susan  F.  Moses  (Charles) "      "      " 

159.  Edmund  L.  Champlin  "       "       " 

160.  Lydia    E.    Allison    (Mrs.    David    W. 
Sellec)    Oct.  30,  i860 

1 161.  Mary  L.  Jackson  "       "       " 

278 


Ian. 

2,     it 

May 

8,    ii 

May 

8,    1! 

Mch. 

1,   1) 

Oct. 

24,  ii 

Aug. 

29,    ii 

Aug. 

29,    I 

April 

27,    l< 

Nov. 

28,    I 

Nov. 

28,    I 

Oct. 

2,     I 

Oct. 

17,    I 

June 

17,    I 

June 

17,    I 

Nov. 

28,  I 

June 

28,    I 

Aug. 

4,    I 

Feb. 

10,   I 

Jan. 

18,   1 

Jan. 

7,    1 

June 

2,   1 

May 

19,  1 

Aug. 

12,  1 

Nov. 

28,  1 

Apri 

5,  1 

Nov. 

28,  1 

Nov. 

28,  1 

Mav 

15,  1 

April 

I5,i 

June 

11,  1 

Dec. 

3i,  1 

Dec. 

5,    1 

Dec. 

5,    1 

May 

6,    1 

April  18,  1 

Oct. 

9,    1 

April  27,  1 

May 

27,  1 

May 

27,  1 

July 

24,  1 

Mch. 

25,  1 

July 

27,  1 

Aug. 

19,1 

Mch. 

6,   1 

Mch. 

6,  1 

Mav 

1,    1 

Mch. 

29,  1 

Apri 

7,  1 

Apri 

i,  1 

Chronological   List   of   Members 

jjo                           Name                                                  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

1162.  Clarissa  M.  Badger  (Milton) Oct.  30,  i860  May  10,  1873 

1 163.  Charles  Whittemore 

1 164.  Maria  F.  Whittemore  (Charles) 

1165.  Agnes  L.  Littlejohn  (wid.  David) .  ..Jan.  4,  1861  Oct.  12,  1870 

1 166.  Rachel  Erwin  (wid.  Richard) "  "  "  Jan.  21,   1871 

1 167.  Edward  C.  Merriam "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1 168.  Stephen  T.  Gordon "  "  "  May  12,  1876 

1 169.  Adella  J.  Gordon  (Stephen  T.) "  "  "  Jan.    4,    1871 

1 170.  Hamilton  S.  Gordon  

1 171.  Henrietta  E.  Talcott  (James) "  '*  "  April  14,  1880 

1 172.  Francis  Littlejohn "  "  Oct.   12,   1870 

1 173.  Mary  Carey  (Thomas  William) 

1 174.  Guglielmo  Gazani  Feb.  26,  1861  June  8,   1868 

1175.  Abner  B.  Holly "  "  "  April  19,  1876 

1 176.  Theodore  S.  Pond  "  "  "  Aug.  31,  1867 

1 177.  Harriett  Pond  (Lewis  A.) "  "  "  June  26,  1866 

1178.  Eliza  C.  Schriver  (Thomas) "  "  "  Mch.  25,  186S 

1 179.  Jenny  A.  Hull  (Calvin  E.) "  "  "  Jan.   18,   1865 

1180.  Josiah  C.  Saxton  "  "  "  Feb.    2,    1887 

1 181.  Harriet  Wright  (Mrs.  L.  McBride) .  "  "  "  Mch.  4,   1863 

1 182.  Charles  T.  Rodgers  "  "  "  Jan.    7.    1875 

1 183.  Eunice  Thompson  "  "  "  Mch.  26,  1866 

1 184.  Nathaniel  A.  Boynton  April  30,  1861  Dec.   2,    1863 

1 185.  Prudence  W.  Boynton   "  "  "  Dec.    2,    1863 

1186.  Seth  B.  Hunt "  "  "  April  20,  1880 

1 187.  Frances  P.  Hunt  (Seth  B.) "  "  "  Dec.  13,  1866 

1 188.  Frances  H.  Hunt   (Mrs.  Julius  Cat- 

lin,  Jr.)    "  "  "  Dec.  17,  1868 

1 189.  Edward  H.  Winslow  "  "  "  Mch.  3,   1868 

1190.  Helen  A.  Winslow  (Edward  H.)....  "  "  "  Mch.  3,   1868 

1 191.  William  G.  Lambert   "  "  "  Dec.  24,  1882 

1192.  Sarah  Lambert   (William  G.) "  "  "  Dec.  31,  1875 

1 193.  Ellen  L.  Lambert  

1 194.  Edward  W.  Lambert " 

1195.  Martha  W.  Lambert  "  "  " 

1 196.  Sarah  J.  Sears   (Henry  P.) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1 197.  Mary  H.  Clark  (Ezra,  Jr.) "  "  "  Jan.   12,   1866 

1198.  Frances  Clark  "  "  "  Jan.   12,   1866 

1 199.  Mary  J.  Topping  (Mrs.  Harman  Gar- 

retson)  "  "  "  Jan.  21,    1875 

1200.  William  H.  Smith "  "  "  July  28.   1892 

1201.  Harriet  T.  Smith  (William  H.) "  "  "  Mch.  n,  1882 

1202.  Sarah    H.    C.    Smith    (Mrs.    G.    A. 

Chamberlain)    "  "  "  Jan.   21,   1875 

1203.  O.  Loretta  Shafer   (Abraham) "  "  "  April  16,  1867 

1204.  George  F.  Hall "  "  "  Mch.  18,  1885 

1205.  Henry  C.  W alley "  "  "  July    1,    1868 

1206.  William  O.  Kimball  July    1,  1861  July  14,   1862 

1207.  Elizabeth  A.  Kimball  "  "  "  July  14,    1862 

1208.  Lucy  Seymour   (Robert  W.) "  "  "  Nov.  30,  1870 

1209.  Alfred  North  "  "  "  Mch.  7,   1867 

1210.  Lydia  Bartlett  (Phineas) "  "  "  June   7,    1864 

1211.  Isaac  L.  Wilde "  "  "  April  17,  1873 

1212.  Fanny  Champlin  (Edward  L.) Aug.  27,  1861  Mch.  29,  1869 

1213.  William  H.  Thomson "  "  " 

279 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

1214.  Catharine  S.  Thompson  (Wm.  H.)  . .  Aug.  27,  1861 

1215.  William  H.  Frazer  "  "  " 

1216.  Kate  Chandler  (wid.  Holmes  Wilkin- 
son)    

1217.  Normandus  W.  Thayer Oct.  29,  1861 

1218.  Mary  E.  Thayer  (Normandus  W.)..  " 

1219.  Joel  A.  Jennings  "  "  " 

1220.  James  A.  Tindall "  "  " 

1221.  Amanda  Tindall  (James  A.) "  "  " 

1222.  Jane  Ives  Washburn  (John  H.) "  "  " 

1223.  Bethia  S.  Arbuckle  (wid.  James) "  "  " 

1224.  Eliza  A.  Arbuckle  "  "  " 

1225.  Sarah  B.  Arbuckle "  "  " 

1226.  William  Allen   "  "  " 

1227.  Charles  Abernethy "  "  " 

1228.  Maria  Abernethy  (Charles)    "  "  " 

1229.  Cornelia  Abernethy "  "  " 

1230.  El  ial  F.  Hall   "  "  " 

1231.  George  H.  White  "  "  " 

1232.  Rebecca  W.  White  (George  H.) "  "  " 

1233.  Elisha  W.  Chester  "  "  " 

1234.  Catharine   W.   Chester    (wid.    Elisha 

W.)   "  "  " 

1235.  Emily   E.    Chester    (wid.    Albert    T. 

Battell)    "  "  " 

1236.  Charles  R.  Harvey "  "  " 

1237.  Alpha  R.  Harvey  (Charles  R.) "  "  " 

1238.  Olive  M.  Harvey  "  "  " 

1239.  Ellen  M.  Harvey  (Mrs.  Foote) "  "  " 

1240.  Willard  Harvey "  "  " 

1241.  Sarah  B.  Harvey  (Willard) "  "  " 

1242.  James  W.  Hal sted "  "  " 

1243.  Benjamin  K.  Phelps "  "  " 

1244.  Hannah  M.  Phelps  (Benjamin  K.)..  "  "  " 

1245.  Fannie  B.  Hyde "  "  " 

1246.  Elizabeth  Hyde  (wid.  Jos.  B.) "  "  " 

1247.  Sarah  A.  Southwayd  (Stephen  C.)..  "  "  " 

1248.  Frances  A.  F.  Sherwood  "  "  " 

1249.  George  F.  Chester  "  "  " 

1250.  Jane  J.  Chester  (George  F.) "  "  " 

1251.  Thomas  Rigney "  "  " 

1252.  Chloe  W.  Rigney  (Thomas) "  "  " 

1253.  Almira  J.  Rigney "  "  " 

1254.  Henrietta  Roundey   (Thomas) "  "  " 

1255.  Sarah  M.  Conover  "  "  " 

1256.  Joel  Blackmer "  "  " 

1257.  Elizabeth  W.  Blackmer "  '*  " 

1258.  William  A.  Bronson "  "  " 

1259.  Sarah  D.  Bronson  (William  A.)....  "  "  " 

1260.  James  H.  Dunham "  "  " 

1261.  John  S.  Cutter "  "  " 

1262.  Z.  N.  Bradbury "  "  " 

1263.  Catharine  Danforth   "  "  " 

1264.  Harriette  Danforth "  "  " 

1265.  Philura  Danforth   "  "  " 

280 


When  Removed. 

Dec.  4, 

1864 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

July  28, 

1873 

Aug.  — , 

1865 

Nov.  15, 

1886 

Oct.  21, 

i8q8 

Feb.  I, 

188 1 

June  4, 

1877 

Mch.  27, 

1880 

May  25, 

1874 

Mch.  29, 

1878 

Jan.  25, 

1868 

Aug.  29, 

1865 

Aug.  29, 

1865 

May  18, 

1873 

May  6, 

1874 

Feb.  12, 

1S66 

April  3, 

1866 

April  3, 

1866 

April  3, 

1866 

Jan.  11, 

1867 

Aug.  — , 

1872 

June  7, 

18&9 

Oct.  24, 

18&.S 

Dec.  30, 

1880 

Dec.  21, 

1S80 

Sept.  27, 

1864 

Sept.  27, 

1864 

May  8, 

1875 

Oct.  2, 

1867 

Aug.  10, 

1867 

Aug.  10, 

1867 

May  31, 

1865 

May  31, 

1865 

May  31, 

1865 

Sept.  24, 

1862 

Feb.  24, 

1863 

Nov.  7, 

1879 

Dec.  2, 

1879 

Aug.  20, 

1890 

July  12, 

1876 

April  28, 

190 1 

1863 

May  6, 

1862 

June  17, 

1863 

June  17, 

1863 

June  17, 

1863 

Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

1266.  Helen  A.  Smith  (Harry  D.) Oct.  29,  1861     Mch.  13,  1872 

1267.  Sarah  A.  Pray  (wid.  Isaac  C.) "  "  "      Mch.  13,  187a 

1268.  Eliza  Judson  (widow) "  "  "      Nov.  28,  1894 

1269.  Anna   Maria  Judson    (Mrs.   John  J. 

Hannah)    "  "  "       Nov.  28,  1894 

1270.  Charles  W.  Flyer  "  "  "      Nov.  28,  1894 

1271.  Amos  C.  White "  "  "      April  4,   1893 

1272.  Mary  C.  Arbuckle "  "  "      Oct.  23,   1870 

1273.  Sarah  H.  White  (wid.  Elijah  H.) Dec.  31,  1861     May   6,    1870 

1274.  Edward  A.  Rand "  "  "      Dec.  19,  1865 

1275.  Abigail  Chamberlain  (wid.  Moses) . .  "  "  "      Nov.  17,  1867 

1276.  Sarah  P.  Maghee  (wid.  John  H.)....  "  "  "      April  8,  1893 

1277.  Susan  F.  Jennings  (wid.  Joel  J.) "  "  "      June  — ,  1884 

1278.  Jesse  Joy  "  "  "      May  12,  1862 

1279.  Moores  M.  White "  "  "      Nov.  30,  1890 

1280.  Sophia  A.  White  (Moores  M.) "  "  "      Mch.  28,  1867 

1281.  Edward  G.  Bartlett  "  "  "      July  25,  1889 

1282.  Jane  W.  Bartlett  (wid.  Edward  G.).  "  "  " 

1283.  Thomas  S.  Berry "  "  "      Jan.  30,  1875 

1284.  Anna  E.  Berry  (wid.  Thomas  S.)  . . . .  "  "  " 

1285.  Mary  E.  Greenwood  {wid.  Henry  B.)  "  "  " 

1286.  Cornelia  C.  Moore  "  "  " 

1287.  Henrietta  A.  Halsey  {Harlan  P.)...  "  "  " 

1288.  Henry  Kirke  White "  "  " 

1289.  William  Henry  Bridgman  Feb.  25,  1862 

1290.  Sarah  Abbott  Bridgman "  "  " 

1291.  Edward  M.  Norwood "  "  " 

1292.  Luther  P.  Fitch "  "  " 

1293.  Matthew  McDougall  "  "  " 

1294.  Susannah  McDougall   (Matthew) "  "  " 

1295.  Morris  Roberts,  Jr "  "  " 

1296.  Mary  R.  Roberts  (Morris,  Jr.) "  "  " 

1297.  Elizabeth  B.  Cooke  (Mrs.  Munroe)..  "  "  " 

1298.  Ellen  J.  Huntington   {Thomas  T.)  . .  "  "  " 

1299.  Emiline  M.  Northrup April  29,  1862 

1300.  Horace  S.  Taylor "  "  " 

1301.  Eliza  G.  Taylor  (Horace  S.) "  "  " 

1302.  Sarah  F.  Field  (widow) "  "  " 

1303.  William  H.  Haskins "  "  " 

1304.  Robert  W.  Haskins  "  "  " 

1305.  Pierpont  Isham "  "  " 

1306.  Semantha  S.  Isham  (Pierpont) "  "  " 

1307.  Mary  A.  Isham  (Mrs.  Sartell  Prentice)  "  "  " 

1308.  Leonard  Hazeltine,  Jr "  "  " 

1309.  Emma  Hazeltine   (Leonard,  Jr.) "  "  "      Oct.  18,  1889 

1310.  Joseph  Gavit "  "  "      May  15,  1887 

1311.  James  Henry  Smith   "  "  "      Nov.  28,  1894 

1312.  Ellen  R.  Stozvell  "  "  "      Jan.  22,   1863 

1313-  William  C.  Gilman July  1,  1862    June  6,    1863 

1314.  Eliza  Gilman  (William  C.) "  "  "      Oct.  18,  1864 

1315.  Nathan  Camp "  "  "      Aug.  14,  1865 

1316.  Phebe  W.  Camp  (Nathan) "  "  "      Aug.  14,  1865 

1317.  Henry  G.  Davis "  "  "      June  13,  1877 

1318.  Eliza  C.  Knapp  (Samuel) Oct.  28,  1862     Nov.  28,  1894 

1319.  Jane  Young "  "  "      Nov.  14,  1864 

281 


Nov.  28, 
Jan.  21, 
June  10, 
Jan.  17, 
Oct.  21, 
Dec.  9, 
Feb.  20, 
June  18, 
Mch.  29, 
Mch.  29, 


Jan.  15, 
Nov.  1, 
Dec.  26, 

May  21, 
Feb.  17, 
April  23, 
Dec.  12, 
Dec.  12, 
May  10, 
May  18, 
Oct.  23, 


1894 
1880 
1866 
1868 
1874 
1870 
1866 
1867 
1869 
1869 


1890 
1871 
1867 
1884 
1876 
1867 
1873 
1872 
1872 
1876 
1867 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When 

1320.  Nathaniel  Fisher Oct. 

1321.  Mary  Ann  Fisher  (wid.  Nathaniel)..  " 

1322.  Sarah  Fisher 

1323.  Elizabeth  R.  Fisher " 

1324.  Melissa  Lipe  (Walter) " 

1325.  Thomas  G.  Thurston " 

1326.  Edward  F.  Farrand  " 

1327.  Helen  M.  Lockwood   (Mrs.  Edward 

F.  Farrand)   " 

132S.  William  A.  Cushman " 

1329.  Delia  M.  Johnson  (wid.  Edward  C.) 

(Mrs.  McMurtrie)    " 

1330.  Susan  C.  Ray  (Edwin  C.) " 

1331.  Hannah  Fcrand   (Gustave  J.) " 

1332.  Margaret  Chandler " 

1333-  Henry  B.  Underwood Dec. 

1334-  James  Edmonds " 

1335-  Margaret  Edmonds   (James) " 

1336.  William  A.  Dodge  " 

*337-  Jeannie  G.  Dodge  (William  A.) " 

1338.  Josephine  C.  Wheat " 

1339-  Agnes    W.    Lit  tie  John    (Mrs.    Alex- 
ander)      " 

1340.  Samuel  B.  Little  John   " 

1341.  Lyman  B.  Bunnell  " 

1342.  William  N.  Jennings  " 

1343.  Catherine  J.  Holly  (Abner  B.) Feb. 

1344.  Ambrose  Leonard  " 

1345.  John  Edwards  " 

1346.  Mary  Tliomas " 

1347-  William  E.  Gavit " 

1348.  Mcta  Gavit  (Mrs.  John  Q.  Adams) . .  " 

1349.  Lucy  B.    Thompson    (Mrs.   Seth  B. 
Hunt)   " 

1350.  Honoria  E.  Hooker  (Nathaniel  W.) .  " 

1351.  Adoniram  Judson  Rich  April 

1352.  Mary  H.  Gray " 

1353-  Joseph  P.  Snow " 

1354.  Minerva  B.  Snow  (Joseph  P.) " 

1355.  Isabel  M.  Ames " 

1356.  Joanna  L.  Holmes  (Daniel) " 

1357-  Robert  L.  Hall " 

1358.  Martha  Hall  (Robert  L.) " 

1359-  Charles  L.  Hall  " 

1360.  David  Anson  Hedges " 

1361.  George  Goodwin  Hall " 

1362.  M.  Elizabeth  Hall  (George  G.) " 

1363.  Sophia    M.    Proudfoot    (Mrs.    John 
Ferguson)    " 

1364.  Charles  H.  Clark " 

1365.  Frances  Louise  Girling " 

1366.  A.  Jeanette  McDougall " 

1367.  Julia  T.  Mills  (S.  D.) June 

1368.  Adele  Mills  " 

1369.  Israel  H.  Geary " 

282 


Rec 

eived. 

When  Removed. 

28, 

1862 

Dec.    9, 

liSSo 

tt 

" 

Sept.  8, 

[892 

u 

June  19, 

[891 

tt 

it 

[808 

it 

it 

Feb.  23, 

[884 

a 

a 

Nov.  28, 

[894 

u 

« 

Nov.  28, 

[804 

tt 

tt 

June  11, 

[867 

tt 

tt 

July  7, 

[881 

it 

it 

Feb.  18, 

[868 

tt 

" 

Nov.  28, 

[894 

u 

" 

Nov.  28, 

[8q4 

30, 

1862 

Oct.  13, 

[863 

" 

" 

Mch.  7, 

1873 

" 

Aug.  3, 

[892 

" 

Nov.  28, 

[QOO 

a 

" 

Oct.  31, 

[867 

a 

a 

Mch.  26, 

[871 

« 

" 

Oct.  23, 

[867 

s* 

" 

Oct.  31, 

[883 

it 

" 

July  21, 

[87O 

" 

June  15, 

[887 

24. 

1863 

April  19, 

[8/6 

" 

" 

Nov.  27, 

[867 

it 

it 

Mch.  27, 

[868 

a 
it 

it 

a 

Nov.  28, 

[894 

a 

tt 

Sept.  22, 

rS-5 

" 

» 

Dec.    5, 

883 

M 

Nov.  25, 

[880 

28, 
it 

1863 

Mch.  16, 

864 

" 

a 

Nov.  28, 

804 

" 

" 

April  25, 

[863 

" 

May  28, 

8oo 

" 

" 

July  21,   ] 

869 

" 

a 

Sept.  26, 

[880 

tt 

tt 

Sept.  5,   ] 

878 

tt 

tt 

May  l8,  ] 

875 

" 

a 

Dec.   6,    ] 

87.S 

tt 

it 

Dec.  30,  ] 

86o 

a 

" 

Dec.  30,  ] 

869 

a 

tt 

Nov.  28,  ] 

8q4 

it 

tt 

Jan.   12,   ] 

866 

" 

tt 

Oct.   19,  1 

887 

it 

tt 

Mch.  29,  ] 

869 

30, 

I863 

April  14,  ] 

869 

" 

" 

April  14.  i 

86q 

" 

tt 

Nov.    1,    ] 

865 

Chronological   List   of   Members 


No. 
1370. 

1371- 
1372. 

I373- 
1374- 
1375- 

1376. 
1377- 
1378. 
1379- 
1380. 
1381. 
1382. 
1383. 
1384. 
1385. 
1386. 

1387. 

1388. 
1389. 
1390. 
1391. 
1392. 
1393- 
1394- 
I395- 
1396. 
1397- 
1398. 
I399- 
1400. 
1401. 
1402. 
1403. 
1404. 
1405. 
1406. 
1407. 
1408. 
1409. 
1410. 
1411. 
1412. 

1413. 
1414. 

141S. 
1416. 
1417. 
1418 

1419. 
1420. 
1421 


Name  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

Josephine  M.  Geary  (Israel  H.) June  30,  1863     Nov.    1,    1865 

Frances  Hackley  (Caleb  B.) "                      Feb.  27,  1878 

Benjamin  F.  Millerd  Oct.  25,  1864 

Frances  E.  Millerd  (Benjamin  F.)  . .  Oct.  25,  1864 

Ambrose  L.  Ranney  Dec.    6,    iSbS 

Agnes  C.  Parker   {Mrs.  Samuel  O. 

Burtt)               Aug.   6>    l8?3 

Simeon  Hacklev Oct.  27,  1863    Feb.  16,  1864 

Chauncey  L.  Hamlin "t      "(      "      Aug.  14,  1865 

Walter  Pardee  •                  0  , 

Almira  M.  Pardee  (Walter) Sept.  17,  1896 

Charles  Durfee "      "              ^ov-1'1?71 

Adelpha  S.  Durfee  (Charles) Nov.  4.    1871 

Lucy  M.  Mellish  (wid.  Daniel  B.)...  "               '      Oct.  25,   1876 

Jeremiah  G.  Sugar "                      E^5'1?73 

Harriet  N.  Sugar  (Jeremiah  G.)....  '        Feb.    5,    1873 

Harriet  N.  Sugar '        Feb.    5,    1873 

Amelia  M.  Sugar  (Mrs.  John  French)  Jan.    5,    1876 
Frances    A.     Sugar     (Mrs.     William 

Wallace  Howland)    u      Jan.    2,    1875 

Caroline  Bloomingdale  (David) w      June  10,  1868 

John  H.Evans Nov.  28,  1894 

Elijah  Herman  Smith  June  io,  1808 

Samuel  St.  John  Smith  "             it      Feb.    5,    1870 

David  Bloomingdale n,      June  10,  1868 

Philo  F.  Lavans  Dec.  29,  1863     Nov.  28,  1894 

Joseph  F.  Gaylord "      "             June  9,    1873 

Charles  C.  Watson  "                     June  19,  1889 

Wilson  T.  Potter  "      "              May   2,    1880 

Cynthia  L.  Potter  (wid.  Wilson  T.).  "      "             Jan.  24,  1885 

Absalom  Peters  "                     May  18,  1869 

Hannah  B.  Smith  "      "              Aug.  _,  1891 

Sarah  M.  Brown  (wid.  Samuel  H.) .  "      "              Nov.  28,  1894 

Mary  R.  Dempsey "      "              Sept.  21,  1897 

William  D.  Moore  "                     Oct.    7,    1883 

Rhoda  Jane  Smith  (Darius  A.) "      "              Nov.  28,  1894 

Amelia  Gray  (Mrs.  J.  F.  Har man)..  "      "      "       Feb.    8,    1882 

Elisabeth  Connolly  "      "             Jan-    5,    1898 

Henry  L.  Boltwood  Mch.  I,  1864    Oct.  24,  1865 

Helen  E.  Boltwood "      "      "      Oct.  24,  1865 

Joel  E.  Fisher  "      "              XT 

Harriet  L.  Dunham   (James  H.)....  Nov.  22,  1879 

Henry  M.  Field "      "      "      Mch.  7,    1867 

Lydia  Morgie  Field  (Henry  M.)....  "       "       "       Mch.   7.    1867 

Harriet  T.  Storrs  April  26,  1864    Died.  No  date 

Jane  S.  Hatch  (William  B.) "      "      "      Jan.    6,    1876 

Sarah  C.  Pickering  (Thomas  A.)...  "      "      "      July    7,    1875 

Hannah  Van  Dyne "      "      "      Nov.  28,  1894 

William  M.  Chamberlain  April  28,  1864    Jan.    5,    1876 

Susan  E.  Chamberlain  (Wm.  M.)...  "      "      "      Jan.    5,    1876 

George  Gillie   "      "      "       Feb.  24,  1897 

James  Taylor  "t      "(      "      Oct.  17,  1877 

Olivia  M.  Taylor  (wid.  James) 

Sarah  P.  Lambert  (Mrs.  Charles  H. 

Leeds)   "      "      "      April  17,  1889 

283 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


1864 
1864 


1864 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

1422.  John  A.  Magee April  28,  1864 

1423.  Caleb  B.  Hackley  " 

1424.  Isabella  Gillie  (George) 

1425.  IVilliam  Gray 

1426.  Harriet  Gray  (wid.   William) " 

1427.  Agnes  Henry  June  28 

1428.  Edward  B.  Finch  

1429.  Amelia  J.  Finch  (Edward  B.) "      ' 

1430.  Sarah  L.  Shannon  (wid.  Horatio  N.) 

(Mrs.  John  Hanvelman) Nov.   1 

1431.  Mary  A.  Williams 

1432.  John  C.  Staples 

1433.  Martha  A.  Pember  (Henry  H.) "      ' 

1434.  Hattie  E.  Plyer  (Charles  W.) " 

1435-  Cyrus  S.  Minor 

1436.  Catherine  R.  Minor  (Cyrus  S.) " 

1437-  Jane  M.  Merrill  (wid.  James) 

1438.  William  F.  Barnard " 

1439.  William  H.  Teal  "      ' 

1440.  William  E.  Locke "      ' 

1441.  Julius  L.  Danner " 

1442.  Flora  L.  Minor  (Mrs.  Thos.  L.  Miller)  "      ' 

1443.  Thomas  Logan Dec.  27 

1444.  Benjamin  Vaughan  Abbott 

1445.  Elizabeth  T.  Abbott  (Benjamin  V.)  . .  " 

1446.  Caroline  A.  Seely   (Charles) " 

1447.  Richard  H.  Gidman  " 

1448.  Cassius  M.  Gilbert  " 

1449.  Daniel  W.  Fox " 

1450.  Mary  H.  Holmes  (William  B.) " 

1451.  Sarah  Benton   (E.  C.) " 

1452.  Mary  Titcomb  " 

1453-  Sophia  C.  Rand  (Albert  T.) Feb.  28 

1454.  Helen  D.  Pitts  (Jesse  G.) " 

1455.  Hannah  C.  Hathaway  (wid.  Thos.  E.)  "  ' 

1456.  Henrietta  K.  Hollister  (Samuel  W.).  "  ' 
1457-  Charles  E.  Whitehead  "  ' 

1458.  Rachel  T.  Whitehead  (Charles  E.)..     "      ' 

1459.  Annie  W.  Palmer  (Herbert  F.) " 

1460.  Joseph  Parker,  Jr "      ' 

1461.  Elizabeth  Day "       ' 

1462.  James  Bigelow "      ' 

1463.  Clarissa  T.  Rockwell  (wid.  Theron).May    1 

1464.  Horatio  B.  Howe "      ' 

1465.  Martha  B.  Howe  (Horatio  B.) "      ' 

1466.  Evelyn  M.  Hall  (Elial  F.) "      ' 

1467.  Mary  C.  Pelton  (Guy  R.) "      ' 

1468.  Mosely  H.  Williams   "       ' 

1469.  John  Henry  Washburn  June  27 

1470.  Jonathan  Bowers  Slade " 

1471.  Lucinda  Reed  (Wilson  D.) " 

T47J.  John  Kershaw   Aug.  29 

I47.<-  Amelia  F.  Kershaw  (John) " 

1474.  Albert  F.  Monroe " 

1475-  William  C.  Witter  Oct.  21 

284 


1865 


1865 

fi 
11 

1865 

tt 

1865 

it 

1865 


When  Remo 
Nov.  28, 
Feb.  27, 
Feb.  24, 
June  21, 
April  3, 
May  11, 
Oct.  9, 
Oct.    9, 

Oct.  17, 
Nov.  22, 
May  27, 
Mch.  10, 
Jan.  l8, 
May  18, 
May  1 8, 

Dec.  4, 
Feb.  28, 
Dec.  18, 
Sept.  9, 
Jan.  28, 
Mch.  20, 
Mch.  6, 
Mch.  6, 
Oct.  9, 
Oct.  2, 
Nov.  28, 
Jan.  12, 
Tune  2, 
Mch.  6, 
Mch.  6, 
June  15, 
April  27, 
April  I, 
Feb.  7, 
Jan.  30, 
Jan.  30, 

Oct.  2, 
Feb.  5, 
Aug.  14, 
Aug.  — , 
Oct.  12, 
Oct.  12, 
May  8, 
Nov.  11, 
Mch.  27, 

June  17, 
Nov.  28, 
June  17, 
June  17, 
June  30, 
Dec.  31, 


ved. 
894 
878 
897 
895 
897 

868 
879 
879 

894 
871 
868 

875 
882 
876 
876 

878 
873 
895 
867 
885 
866 
866 
866 
872 
884 
894 
866 
87c 
866 
866 
869 
868 
868 
872 
895 
895 

866 
867 
86S 
877 
S70 
870 
880 
866 
866 

866 

894 
868 
868 
869 
879 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

1476.  Daniel  B.  Dudley  Oct.  21,  1865 

1477.  Joseph  Angwin 

1478.  Emma  Eve  Smith 

1479.  Herbert  A.  Loring 

1480.  Joseph  Rochester " 

1481.  John  P.  De  Meritt  Jan.   2,    1866 

1482.  Jennie  V.  Bunnell  (Lyman  B.) " 

1483.  William  Henry  Walcott " 

1484.  Allen  Page  Bissell  " 

1485.  Mary  C.  Haviland  (Charles) " 

i486.  James  B.  Thomson " 

1487.  Mary  C.  Thomson  " 

1488.  Edward  Noyes  Pomeroy  

1489.  Charles  Van  Norden  " 

1490.  John  G.  Hitchcock  " 

1491.  Annie  L.  Hitchcock " 

1492.  Arthur  Bates  Jennings 

1493.  Margaret  Williams " 

1494.  Mortimer  Smith  " 

1495.  Gertrude  E.  Forbes  " 

1496.  Anna  Smith  " 

1497.  Jda  May  Morse   (Mrs.  Henry  Eyre 
Brozune)    " 

1498.  Charles  P.  Blanchard " 

1499.  Mary   E.    Lyon    (Mrs.    Theodore   G. 

Wright)   Feb.  27,  1866 

1500.  Mary  B.  Robinson  (Fred.  M.) " 

1501.  Margaret  McDonald  (wid.  Thos.  R.)  " 

1502.  Alexander  Huntington  Clapp " 

1503.  Emily  P.  Clapp  (Alexander  H.)....  " 

1504.  Elizabeth  M.  Owen  (wid.  Thomas)..  " 

1505.  Elizabeth  C.  Ward " 

1506.  William  August  Scharlan " 

1507.  Maria  Burt  (Mrs.  Robt.  W.  Haskins)  " 

1508.  Edgar  W.  Moore  " 

1509.  Clarissa  E.  T.  Moore  (Edgar  W.) . .  " 

1510.  Antoinette  Camp   (Amsi  Lewis)....  " 

1511.  Martin  Luther  Stowell April  10,  1866 

1512.  Sarah  K.  Partridge  (James  H.) " 

1513.  John  Quincy  Adams " 

1514.  Ada  W.  Adams  (John  Q.) " 

1515.  Albert  H.  Olmsted  " 

1516.  Nathaniel  B.  Emerson " 

1517.  Slocum  Wright   " 

1518.  Caroline  L.  Wright  (Slocum) " 

15 19.  S.  Josephine  Hall  (Mrs.  Wm.  Burdon)  " 

1520.  Charles  Augustus  Durfee " 

1521.  Mary  A.  Colton  (Erastus) " 

1522.  Samuel  P.  Putnam " 

1523.  Jennie  S.  Putnam  (Samuel  P.) " 

1524.  Ralph  Lillie " 

1525.  Corneluett  Smith  (Harlan  P.) " 

1526.  Ancoletta  Morse  (Daniel  P.) " 

1527.  Mary  O.  Gale " 

1528.  Phcebe  Gale  " 

285 


When  Rem 

Dved. 

April  24, 

1884 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Mch.  19, 

1808 

Aug.  25, 

1875 

Dec.  26, 

1865 

May  26, 

1870 

July  21, 

1870 

May  6, 

1870 

April  22, 

1809 

Mch.  24, 

1897 

June   7, 

1869 

June   7, 

1869 

Nov.  26, 

1873 

Nov.  9, 

1866 

Jan.  28, 

1868 

Jan.  28, 

1868 

Dec.    7, 

1881 

April  22, 

1868 

June  20, 

1888 

Oct.  21, 

1874 

Mch.  — , 

1872 

April  10, 

1878 

Nov.  27, 

1867 

May  15, 

1872 

Mch.  20, 

1878 

Dec.  12, 

1883 

April  27, 

1899 

Jan.  28, 

1891 

Nov.  28, 

i8Q4 

Dec.  12, 

1873 

Oct.  25, 

1871 

Oct.  25, 

1871 

Mch.  11, 

1890 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Nov.  8, 

1871 

May  21, 

1867 

May  21, 

1867 

May  27, 

1868 

Died.  No 

date 

April  27, 

1881 

April  27, 

1881 

Feb.  23, 

1876 

Sept.  10, 

1873 

Oct.  11, 

1871 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Oct.  28, 

1870 

Died.  No 

date 

June  17, 

1868 

June  17, 

186S 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

j^0                           Name.                                                 When  Received.  When  Removed. 

1520   John  Chandler  Partridge  April  10,  1866  Nov.  28,  1894 

1^0    Mary  R.  Gunn  "  April  16,  1867 

1531.  Melanie  B.  Durfee  "  "      "  Nov.  25,  1868 

1532.  William  H.  Pratt  June  26,  1866 

1533.  Fanny  Isabel  Reeve  Aug.  19,  1870 

1534.  Elisabeth  Bridge  "  "      "  May  11,  1873 

1535.  Elisabeth  C.  Ward  (wid.  Frederick).     "  "      "  Nov.  19,  1S88 

1536.  Mary  Rebecca  Pardee June  26,  1866  Dec.  17,  1868 

i<^7   Mary  Magdalene  Hart  (Mrs.  Taube)     "  "      "  June  27,  1885 

1538.  Anne  Elizabeth  Shepard  (Alex.  W.)     "  "       "  Oct.    9,    1867 

1539.  Charles  H.  Leeds  "  "      "  April  17,  1889 

1540.  Frances  W.  Foote  (wid.  E.  Hubert). Oct.  30,  1866 

1541.  Caroline  F.  Fuller  (Edward  P.)....     "  "      "  Oct.  22,  1873 

1542.  Edward  P.  Fuller "  "      "  Oct.  22,  1873 

1543.  Rebecca  Doxvney  (John)   Oct.  21,  1884 

1544.  Ann  Jane  Magee  "  "      "  Jan.   II,   1871 

1545.  Edward  P.  Salmon Dec.  26,  1866  Dec.  10,  1867 

1546.  Daniel  C.  Ripley  Died.  No  date 

1547.  Sarah  B.  Ripley  (wid.  Daniel  C.) . . . .     "  "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1548.  Louisa  F.  Johnson  (Mrs.  James  Un- 
derbill)  (Mrs.  John  H.  Wheeler) .. .     "  "      "  Feb.  16,  1881 

1549.  John  Downey  "  "      "  April  17,  1895 

1550.  Julia  Bennett  (Edwin)  Feb.  26,1867  May    1,    1872 

1551.  Clark  Bell  "  "      "  Mch.  31,  1897 

1552.  Helene  S.  Bell  (Clark) "  "      "  Mch.  31,  1897 

1553.  Crissie  C.  Bradley  (Bradford  D.) ...  April  30,  1867  May  29,  1872 

1554.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Fahnestock  "      "  April  27,  1868 

1555.  Mary  C.  Fahnestock "      "      "  April  27,  1868 

1556.  Horace  A.  Foote 

1557.  Emily  K.  Foote  (Horace  A.) "      "      "  July  21,  1896 

1558.  George  B.  Hanna  "      "      "  Nov.  10,  1873 

1559.  George  W.  Potter "      "      "  May   6,    1869 

1560.  Chauncey  P.  Fitch  "      "      "  May  19,  1888 

1561.  Emma  L.  Fitch  (Chauncey  P.) " 

1562.  Jennie  H.  Fitch  (Mrs.  Chas.  Folsom)     " 

1563.  William  Carey  Taylor "      "      "  Oct.    8,    1868 

1564.  Sarah  Pimie  Schenck   (Mrs.  Francis 

Kalbfteisch)    "      "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1565.  Mary  E.  Minor "      "      "  May  18,  1876 

1566.  Alice  Gordon  (Mrs.  Wm.  Plested) . .     "      "      "  April  n,  1877 

1567.  Kate  Gordon  (Mrs.  Milnor  Wiley)..     "      "      "  Jan.  24,  1894 

1568.  Sarah  H.  Gordon  (Mrs.  Fred.  Link).     "      rt      "  Jan.   19,  1891 

1569.  Minnie  Townsend   (Mrs.  Orestes  A. 

B.  Senter)    "      "      "  July  21,  1870 

1570.  Lucy  A.  Bissell  (Allen  Page) July  2,  1867  April  22,  1869 

1571.  Henry  B.  Felt  "      "      "  Nov.  29,  1874 

1572.  George  M.  Dickinson "      "      "  Jan.   18,   1899 

1573-  Lucy   Draper   White    (Mrs.    William 

E.Rice)    "      "      "  Nov.  29,  1899 

1574.  Rosetta    M.    Wright    (Mrs.    Charles 

Thorpe)    "      "      "  Sept.  10,  1S79 

1575.  George  Frederick  Stone  "      "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1-^76.  Phillie  B.  Clark  (George  H.) "      "      "  April  11,  1891 

1577.  Omi  Sidney  Starr "      "      "  April  14,  1869 

1 578.  Clymne  R.  Hatch  Oct.  29,  1867  Feb.  27,  1878 

286 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No                         Name.                                              When  Received.  When  Removed. 

1579.  Frederick  A.  Hatch Oct.  29,  1807  Nov.  28,  1894 

1580.  Lizzie  R.  Hatch  (Albert  J.) "  "  "  Feb.  27,  1878 

1581.  Catherine  H.  Ranney  (Lafayette)...  "  "  "  Dec.  26,  1883 

1582.  Raymond  Scudder  "  "  "  April  14,  1880 

1583.  Catherine  G.  Winterburn  (Charles).  "  "  "  Jan.    9,    1878 

1584.  George  William  Winterburn "  "  "  Mch.  31,  1897 

1585.  Arthur  Wellington  Tyler "  "  "  Oct.  26,  1880 

1580.  Isaac  W.  Barnum "  "  "  Feb.  13,  1873 

1587.  Jeanette  Barnum  (Isaac  W.) "  "  "  Feb.  13,  1873 

1588.  Ray  Palmer "  "  "  Oct.  12,  1870 

1589.  Ann  M.  Palmer  (Ray)  "  "  "  Oct.   12,  1870 

1590.  Harriet  S.  Palmer "  "  "  Oct.   12,  1870 

1591.  Maria  W.  Palmer  "  "  "  Oct.  12,  1870 

1592.  Mrs.  Maria  Richardson "  "  Oct.  12,  1870 

1593.  Stephen  Hubbell  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1594.  Sarah  C.  Barton  (Mrs.  Turner) "  "  "  Jan,  21,  1870 

1595.  Sarah  Lodcmia  Bradley "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

159O.  Louise  Buist  {Andrew) "  "  "  Aug. — ,1881 

1597-  Susan  Isabella  Morgan "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1598.  Daniel  P.  Morse  "  "  "  Died.  No  date 

1599.  Theodore  G.  Wright  Dec.  31.  1867  May  15,  1872 

1000.  Thomas  W.  Whittemore "  "  '*  July  23,  1885 

1601.  Atossa  F.  Whittemore   (wid.  Thom- 
as W.)   "  "  "  Feb.  20,  1893 

1602.  Arthur  D.  Whittemore  "  "  "  Nov.  23,  1870 

1603.  Francis  A.  Palmer  "  "  " 

1604.  Susannah  S.  Palmer   (Francis  A.)..  "  "  .   "  April  4,  1893 

1605.  Isabella  Frances  Pinkerton  {Mrs.  M. 

D.Barnes)  "  "  "  April  11,  1891 

1606.  William  Morton "  "  "  May  28,  1870 

1607.  Mary  Thompson  Morton  {wid.  Wm.)  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1608.  Violetta  J.  Percy "  "  "  Dec.  31,  1868 

1609.  Myron  S.  Dudley  "  "  "  Sept.  20,  187 1 

1610.  Moses  H.  Kittredge Feb.  25,  1868  Nov.  28,  1894 

161 1.  Joseph  D.  Hull  "  "  "  Mch.  7,   1883 

1612.  Mary  S.  Janes  "  "  " 

1613.  Henry  M.  Boies "  "  "  Dec.    1,    1872 

1614.  Margaret  Boies  (Henry  M.) "  "  "  Dec.    1,    1872 

1615.  Charles  C.  Waite "  "  "  Feb.    3,    1880 

1616.  Julia  B.  Waite  (wid.  Charles  C.)....  "  "  " 

1617.  Henry  F.  Anderson  "  "  "  Feb.  27,  1879 

1618.  Isabella  P.  Anderson  {Henry  P.)...  "  "  "  Feb.  27,  1879 

1619.  James  Underhill "  "  "  Aug.  — ,  1878 

1620.  Susannah  Hamilton  {wid.  John  R.)  .  "  "  "  Sept.  29,  1886 

1621.  Augusta  Purgold "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1622.  WUlard  Gould  Cowell "  "  "  Nov.  2,   1881 

1623.  Sarah  Ann  Pinkerton  {Mrs.  Everett)  "  "  "  June  2,   1897 

1624.  Henry  Moore  April  29,  1868    May  2,   1877 

1625.  Cynthia  A.  Child  (wid.  Marcus) "  "  "  June  28,  1893 

1620.  Nelson  S.  Carpenter  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1627.  Samuel  Burnham  "  "  "  Aug.  6,   1879 

1628.  Mary  A.  Burnham  (Samuel) "  "  "  Aug.   6,    1879 

1629.  Florence  S.  Burnham  (Mrs.  Lewis  H. 

Austin)    "  "  "  Aug.  6,   1879 

1630.  Catherine  Fowlie   (William) "  "  "  Feb.    1,    1871 

287 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.                          Name.                                                 When  Received.  When  Removed. 

163 1.  Robert  Swinton  April  29,  1868  Oct.   9,    1873 

1632.  Christina  Swinton  (Robert) "  "  "  Oct.    9,    1873 

1633.  Huldah   L.   Bates    (Mrs.   Charles  D. 

Lane)   "  "  "  Mch.  io,  1875 

1634.  Samuel  W.  Hollister "  "  "  Feb.    7,    1872 

1635.  Sarah  Bailey  {wid.  Startford  C.  H.).     "  "  "  April  2,  1887 

1636.  Elias  S.  Peck  "  "  "  Dec.  27,  187 1 

1637.  Jennie   A.    Carey    (Mrs.    Cyrus    W. 

Minor)    "  "  "  Jan.   14,   1885 

1638.  Payson  W.  Lyman  Feb.  25,1868  July  19,  1871 

1639.  Mary  P.  Selchow  (Elisha  G.) July  1,  1868  June   7,    1871 

1640.  Mary  Lougee  (wid.  John  L.) "  "  " 

1641.  John  Nathan  White  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1642.  Antoinette  Williams  (Horace) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1643.  Sophronia  Stone  Oct.  28,  1868  1883 

1644.  William  H.  Faxon  "  "  " 

1645.  Henry  C.  Robinson   "  ".  "  Mch.  31,  1880 

1646.  Celinda  Robinson  (Henry  C.) "  "  "  Mch.  31,  1880 

1647.  S.  Otis  Livingston   "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1648.  S.  Helen  Livingston  (S.  Otis) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1649.  Walter  P.  Beers  "  "  "  Oct.  13,  1869 

1650.  Rosetta  E.  Oakley  (Mrs.  Herbert  A. 

Loring)    "  "  "  Aug.  25,  1875 

1651.  Addie  Virginia  Lane "  "  "  Nov.  20,  1869 

1652.  Samuel  A.  Bacon  Dec.  30,1868  April  5,  1879 

1653.  Asa  A.  Spear  "  "  "  Jan.   18,   1871 

1654.  Henry  H.  Thompson  "  "  "  Mav    2,    1875 

1655.  Carrie  V.  Thompson  (Henry  H.)...     "  "  "  May    2,    1875 

1656.  Charles  C.  Harrah   "  "  *'  July    6,    1870 

1657.  Sarah  E.  M.  Harrah  (Charles  C.)...     "  "  "  April  — ,  1869 

1658.  Levi  D.  Jones "  "  "  Dec.  15,  1880 

1659.  M.  C.  Jones  (Levi  D.) "  "  "  Dec.  15,  1880 

1660.  James  T.  Leavitt  "  "  "  Nov.   5,    1894 

1661.  Sarah  B.  Leavitt  (James  T.) "  "  " 

1662.  J.  Clarke  Thomas  "  "  " 

1663.  Alice  Gray  (Mrs.  W.  W.  Clay) "  "  " 

1664.  Samuel  D.  Magee "  "  "  Jan.   11,   1871 

6165.  John  R.  Downey    "  "  "  Mch.  15,  1899 

1666.  George  E.  Doolittle "  "  "  Dec.   8,    1869 

1667.  Charles  H.  Ranney "  "  "  Feb.  15,  1897 

1668.  William  Ives  Washburn "  "  " 

1669.  Emmcrson  Pratt  Jennings "  "  "  Mch.  10,  1875 

1670.  Martha  Waldron  (wid.  Samuel  W.).Mch.  3,  1869  Sept.  27.  1882 

1671.  Mary  W  .Waldron  "  "  "  April  22.  1885 

1672.  Lewis  J.  Mul  ford "  "  "  Mch    7    1888 

1673.  Carrie  T.  Mulford  (wid.  Lewis  J.)..     "  "  "  Mch.  7,   1888 

1674.  Edmund  A.  Smith  "  "  "  Feb.  24,  1876 

1675.  Emily  A.  Smith  (zvid.  Edmund  A.)  . .     "  "  "  Aug.  25,  1900 

1676.  Lucy  C.  Middlcton  (rvid.  Charles) ..."  "  "  April  24,  1871 

1677.  Mary  Frances  Miles  (Charles  W.)  . .     "  "  "  Oct.  21,   1874 

1678.  Ernest  Robert  Hall   "  "  "  Mch  20   1878 

1679.  Henry  W.  Carey  "  "  "  Mch.  IS,'  1882 

1680.  Edivard  Dix  Fisher  "  "  " 

1681.  Mary     L.     Fisher     (Mrs.     John     R. 
Downey)    "  "  " 

288   ' 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

1682.  Ellen  Gordon Mch.  3,  1869 

1683.  Ferdinand  A.  Feraud  "  "  " 

1684.  Edgar  M.  Smith  April  28,  1869 

1685.  Amanda  D.  Smith  (Edgar  M.) "  "  " 

1686.  Frederick  E.  Coffin   "  "  " 

1687.  William  Clift,  Jr "  "  " 

1688.  Mary  E.  Walker  (William) "  "  " 

1689.  Martha  Ellis  (Mrs.  Tom  Coleman) ..     "  " 

1690.  Edward  T.  Henry "  "  " 

1691.  Augusta  E.  Henry  "  "  " 

1692.  James  Gillie  "  "  " 

1693.  Otis  Field,  Jr "  "  " 

1694.  Nellie  Frances  Miles  "  "  " 

1695.  Mary  Taylor   (Mrs.  Lewis  W.  Har- 
rington)        "  "  " 

1696.  Elizabeth  M.  McDonald   (wid.  John 

G.)    "  "  " 

1697.  Caroline  E.  Tyler  (Mrs.) June  30,  1869 

1698.  Caroline  C.  Tyler  (Mrs.  Lincoln) "  "  " 

1699.  Anna  H.  Tyler "  "  " 

1700.  Abbie  Louise  Lyon   "  "  " 

1701.  Elizabeth  G.  Dudley  (Daniel  B.).... 

1702.  Henry  Littlcjohn "  "  " 

1703.  Louis  Fellows "  "  " 

1704.  Mary  K.    Thompson    (Mrs.    William 

H.   Whittakcr)    Nov.  3,  1869 

1705.  Charlotte  V.  Hutchings  (Mrs.  George 

W.  Winterbum)  "  "  " 

1706.  Reuben  B.  Pool "  "  " 

1707.  Celia  L.  Weston  (wid.  Milton  L.)...Dec.  29,  1869 

1708.  Lizzie  C.  Weston  "  "  " 

1709.  C.  B.  Curtis  (Mrs.)    "  "  " 

1710.  Joseph  A.   Shoudy   "  "  " 

1711.  Caroline  T.  Shoudy  (Joseph  A.)....     "  "  " 

1712.  Thomas  P.  Ellis  "  "  " 

1713.  Emily  W.  Ellis  (Thomas  P.) "  "  " 

1714.  Sarah  M.  Abernathy  (wid.  Charles) .     "  "  " 

1715.  Jennie  Helen   Weston    (Mrs.   Ernest 

R.  Hall)    "  "  " 

1716.  Emily  A.  Harrington  (Mrs.  Scott)         "  " 
I7i6y2.  Virginia  Vincent "  "  " 

1717.  Joseph  S.  Case  Mch.  2,  1870 

1718.  Mary  G.  Case  (Joseph  S.) "  "  *' 

1719.  Mary  A.  Reynolds "  "  " 

1720.  Mary  Evaline  McDonald  "  "  " 

1721.  Franklin  B.  Mirick April  27,  1870 

1722.  Lucy  E.  Mirick  (Franklin  B.) "  "  " 

1723.  William  Westerfield,  Jr June  29,  1870 

1724.  Barbara  Fox   (Leandcr) "  "  " 

1725.  Cyrus  W.  Minor  "  "  " 

1726.  Edward  H.  Minor  " 

1727.  Josiah  D.  Evans  "  "  " 

1728.  Frederick  R.  Marvin  Nov.  2,  1870 

1729.  Frances  E.  Pool  (Reuben  B.) "  "  " 

1730.  Eliza  A.  Dailey  (Mrs.) "  " 

289 


Vhen  Removed. 
May  12,  1876 
April  7,  1881 

July  10, 

1897 

Nov.  28, 
Nov.  28, 
Nov.  28, 
Jan.  8, 
Nov.  28, 

Oct.  21, 

1894 
1894 
1894 
1879 
1894 
1874 

Mch.  2, 
Jan.  24, 
Jan.  24, 
Jan.  24, 
June  10, 

1898 
1872 
1872 
1872 
1870 

Oct.  12, 
Oct.  25, 

1870 
1876 

April  30, 

1884 

Mch.  31, 
April  6, 
Mch.  20, 
Mch.  28, 

1897 
1895 
1878 
1878 

Sept.  9, 
Sept.  9, 
Dec.  12, 
Dec.  12, 

1875 
1875 
1872 
1872 

Mch.  20, 
Jan.  20, 
Nov.  28, 
May  9, 
May  9, 
Oct.  12, 

1878 
1886 
1894 
1894 
1894 
1881 

May  5, 

1889 

Oct.  4. 
Nov.  28, 
Jan.  14, 
Died.  N< 

1871 

1804 

1885 

5  date 

April  I5: 
Dec.  7, 

April  24 

,  187S 

1894 
,  1880 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.  Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

1731.  Elizabeth  A.  Dailcy Nov.  2,  1870  Feb.    3,    1897 

1732.  Miles  B.  Jones "  "  "  June  7,    1871 

1733.  Julia  W.  H.  George  "  "  "                      1889 

1734.  Timothy  W.  Warren  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1735.  Catherine  Devoe  (wid.  James  B.)...  May   6,    1874 

1736.  Charlotte  Haws  "  "  "  Oct.  24,  1894 

1737.  Lewis  W.  Harrington  Dec.  28,  1870 

1738.  James  Herbert  Smith "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1739.  Henrietta  Smith  (James  H.) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1740.  Johanna  Andrews   (Jacob) "  "  "  Oct.  31,   1877 

1741.  Marshall  O.  Roberts   "  "  "  Sept.  11,  1880 

1742.  Caroline  D.  Roberts  (Marshall  O.)..  "  "  "  Dec.  12,  1874 

1743.  George  W.   Weld   "  "  " 

1744.  Mary  Oliver  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1745.  Louise  Miller  (Charles) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1746.  Wilhelmina  Smith  (wid.  John  M.)..  "  "  "  Jan.    9,    1878 

1747.  Christina  Kerr  (zcid.  William) "  "  "  Sept.  2,   1872 

1748.  Rosetta  Guttmann   (tvid.  Nicholas) . .  .  "  "  "  May   2,    1877 

1749.  Katie  Bruggemann  "  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1750.  Edmund  E.  Charles  Mch.  1,  1871  Oct.  10,   1872 

1 751.  Austin  Abbott  "  "  "  April  19,  1896 

1752.  Ellen  L.  G.  Abbott  (Austin) "  "  "  Dec.  28,  1877 

1753-  Wilhelmina  M.  Smith  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1754.  Elizabeth  Gropenstein   (John) "  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1755.  Catherine  Herbst   (wid.  Fred) "  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1756.  Mary  Johanna  Astor "  "  "  May   2,    1877 

1757.  Samuel  Franklin  Jones  "  "  "  June  26,  1872 

1758.  Jane  M.  Beach  (wid.  William) "  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1759.  Sarah  E.  Conklin  (Abraham  V.)....  "  "  "  April  n,  1877 

1760.  Alfrederick  S.  Hatch May  3,  1871  Mch.  20,  1895 

1761.  Thcodosia  Hatch   (Alfrederick  S.)..  "  "  "  Mch.  20,  1895 

1762.  George  P.   Stillman   "  "  "  July  26,   1891 

1763.  Elizabeth  T.  Stillman  (George  P.)..  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1764.  Cornelius  N.  Bliss "  "  " 

1765.  Elizabeth  M.  Bliss   (Cornelius  N.)..  "  "  " 

1766.  Marianna  S.  Barnard  (Win.  F.) "  "  "  Dec.    4,    1878 

1767.  Emily  C.  Battelle   "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1768.  George  A.  Chamberlain "  "  "  Jan.  21.   1875 

1769.  Rosa  Schicla  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1770.  Agnes  Lewis  "  "  "  Died.  No  date 

1771.  Rebecca  Jane  Irving   (ivid.  James)..  "  "  "  Mav    2,    1877 

1772.  Mary   Yates  Hatch    (Mrs.  Henry  B. 

Willard)    "  "  "  Mch.  30,  1898 

1773.  Laura    Whittcmorc    (Mrs.    Jonas   R. 

Nilsen)    "  "  "  Oct.  14,   1896 

1774-  Mary  Haves  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1804 

1775-  John  K.  Cilley  June  28.  1871  April  3,   1878 

1776.  Helen  L.  Cilley  (John  K.) "  "  "  April  3,   1878 

1777.  Joel  Whittemore   "  "  "  Oct.  28,   1891 

1778.  Martha  S.  Whittemore  (Joel) "  "  "  Oct.  28.   1891 

1779.  Catherine  Tietjen   (wid.   Christian)..  "  "  "  Sept.  14,  1881 

1780.  Christian  F.  Tietjen  "  "  "  Sept.  14,  1881 

1781.  Anna     Mary    Evans     (Mrs.     George 

Phelps)    "  "  "  Oct.  25.   1882 

1782.  William  J.  Thompson  "  "  "  April  16,  1879 

290 


Chronological    List   of    Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

1783.  Ellen  Thompson  (William  J.) June  28,  1871 

1784.  Elizabeth  J.  Boe   (wid.  John)    (Mrs. 
Hesland)    

1785.  Christina  M.  Tietjen  

1786.  Mary  Ann  Hill   {wid.  Joseph) 

1787.  Louisa  Herbst   

1788.  Lydia  C.  Gaylord  Nov.   1,  1871 

1789.  Mary  M.  Bartlett " 

1790.  E.  M.  Pendleton  Williams   (Alpheus 

E.)    "      "      " 

1791.  Georgia  Merriman   

1792.  Charles  W.  Cleveland  

1793.  Maria  Isabel  Cleveland  (Charles  W.) 

1794.  William  Gilman  Thompson 

1795.  Mary  Thompson  Hunt  {Samuel  0.)  . 

1796.  Charles  T.  Smith   

1797.  Cornelia  E.  Waldron  {Win.  H.) 

1798.  Susannah  Jennings  {John) 

1799.  Mary  Kohrman   {Mrs.  Frusctta) .... 
1S00.  Leonora  Kunsler  Berry    {Mrs.    Wil- 
fred Hartley)  

1801.  Robert  B.  Hall  Jan.    3,    1872 

1802.  Sarah  D.  Hall   (Robert  B.) jj      JJ      "( 

1803.  William  H.  Thomas   

1804.  Henry  B.  Stillman  Feb.  28,  1872 

1805.  Susan  M.  Jordan  (Mrs.  J.  J.  Grant).     "       " 

1806.  Josephine  A.  Stevens  

1807.  Charlotte  A.  Lathrop 

1808.  Daniel  M.  Woolley "       "       " 

1809.  Noah  Brooks   

1810.  Eunie  Elisabeth  Angevine  {Mrs.  Will- 

iam S.  S.  Rowland) 

181 1.  Adelaide  Phoebe  Angevine  {Mrs.  Col- 
gate)    

1812.  Samuel  Colcord,  Jr May    1,  1872 

1813.  Clarissa  Lammer 

1814.  Thomas  Adam  

1815.  Kate  E.  Hull   (Joseph  D.) "      "      " 

1816.  William  M.  Taylor "      "      " 

1817.  Jessie  Taylor  (William  M.) "       "       " 

1818:  Mitchell   Steedman   (Mrs.) "      "      " 

1819.  Robert  James  Clyde 

1820.  Julia  Clyde  {Robert  J.) 

1821.  William  T.  Freed  

1822.  Susan   Elisabeth    Oliver    {Mrs.    Jen- 
nings)   

1823.  Catherine  H.  Milne July    5,   1872 

1824.  Julia  Rule  (Mrs.  Chas.  E.  Nelson)..     "      "      " 

1825.  Emily  Rule  "      "      " 

1826.  Elizabeth  Logue  (D.  C.) "      "      " 

1827.  L.  Smith  Hobart "       "      " 

1828.  Cynthia  F.  Hobart  (L.  Smith) "      "      " 

1829.  Mary  J.  Troop   (James) 

1830.  Oliver  H.  Corsa,  Jr 

1831.  James  E.  Corsa "      "      " 

291 


vVhen  Removed. 

April  16, 

1879 

April  28, 

1873 

April  II, 

i«77 

April  11, 

1877 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Feb.  5. 

1880 

April  18, 

1877 

Jan.  17, 

1877 

Jan.  17, 

1877 

Nov.  21, 

1900 

Oct.  22, 

1873 

June  19, 

1889 

Dec.  28, 

1881 

May  2, 

1877 

May  2, 

1877 

Feb.  16, 

1876 

Feb.  16, 

1876 

Oct.  16, 

1874 

Dec.  IS, 

1880 

Oct.  15, 

1891 

Sept.  27, 

1873 

Dec.  31, 

1884 

Dec.  31, 

1872 

Nov.  25, 

1885 

Jan.  24, 

1894 

May  27, 

1891 

Nov.  22, 

1882 

Nov.  3, 

1880 

Mch.  7, 

1883 

Feb.  8, 

1895 

Mch.  18, 

1878 

Oct.  21, 

1806 

Oct.  21, 

i8q6 

June  15, 

1881 

Mch.  15, 

1876 

Aug.  4, 

187.S 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Dec.  7, 

1892 

Dec.  16, 

188s 

Dec.  16, 

1885 

Aug.  — , 

1873 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

1832.  John  Taylor  July  5,  1872  Nov.  28,  1894 

1833.  George  IV.  Button  "  "  "  Jan.  29,   1874 

1834.  Robert  W.  H.  Ackerman "  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1835.  Samuel  McCord Oct.  30,  1872  June  19,  1876 

1836.  Charles  E.  Olmsted  "  "  "  Oct.  20,  1886 

1837.  Anna  M.  Holbrook  (Mrs.) "  "  "  June  23,  1895 

1838.  Kate  E.  Stark  "  "  "  April  8,  1885 

1839.  Henry  F.  Hills "  "  "  Sept.  26,  1884 

1840.  Mary  A.  Hills  (Henry  F.) "  "  "  Sept.  26,  1884 

1841.  Mary  L.  McAlpine  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Feb.  10,  1876 

1842.  Gratia  B.  Hollister  (wid.  Edwin  M.).Dec.  30,  1872  April  1,  1885 

1843.  Eunice  P.  Chapman  (Daniel  W.) "  "  "  Nov.  22,  1878 

1844.  Alexander  Frazer  "  "  "  Oct.    4,    1893 

1845.  Esther  Frazer    (Alexander) "  "  "  Oct.    4,    1893 

1846.  George  M.  Tracy   "  "  "  Sept.  3,   1874 

1847.  Stella  L.  Tracy  (wid.  George  M.)...  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1848.  Joseph  H.  Taylor  "  "  "  June    5,    1895 

1S49.  Sarah  B.  Taylor  (Joseph  H.) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1900 

1850.  Joshua  M.  Whitcomb "  "  "  Jan.    8,    1897 

1851.  Sarah  C.  Whitcomb  (Joshua  M.)....  "  "  " 

1852.  Rufus  H.  Somers "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1883 

1853-  Edward  W.  Bell  "  "  "  Mch.   1,   1893 

1854.  Julia  E.  S.  Bell  (Edward  W.) "  "  "  Mch.   I,   1893 

1855.  John  S.  McClure   "  "  "  June  17,  1885 

1856.  Jane  A.  McClure  "  "  "  Feb.    4,    1878 

1857.  Mary  T.   Sparks   "  "  "  Jan.   11,   1885 

1858.  Henrv  B.  Kirkland "  "  "  Sept.  4  ,189a 

1859-  Kate  P.  Kirkland  (wid.  Henry  B.)..  "  "  " 

i860.  Margaret  J.  Freed  (William  T.)....  "  "  "  Dec.    6,    1875 

1861.  Daniel  Lancaster  "  "  "  May  28,  1880 

1862.  Eliza  G.  Lancaster  (wid.  Daniel)....  "  "  "  Nov.  12,  1885 

1863.  Anna  E.  Lancaster "  "  " 

1864.  Helen  Lancaster  "  "  "  Oct.    4,    1876 

1865.  Daniel  E.  Lancaster "  "  " 

1866.  Emily  Ruggles  (wid.  John  G.) "  "  "  Died.  Nodate 

1867.  Margaret  Trevor  "  "  "  Nov.  17,  1876 

1868.  Joseph  Christopher  "  "  "  May  19,  1885 

1869.  Marian  S.  Christopher  (wid.  Jos.)..  "  "  "  Dec.  30,  1886 

1870.  Edwin  M.  Baker "  "  "  Mch.   7,   18S8 

1871.  Theresa  H.  Brinkerhoff  (wid.  Jacob)  "  "  "  July  30,  1894 

1872.  Mary  Frances  Stevens   (Mrs.  James 

W.  Plozvman)    "  "  "  Nov.  12,1874 

1873.  Helen  M.  Stevens  (Mrs.  Frederick  G. 

Schmidt)    "  "  "  Nov.  12,  1874 

1874.  Lizzie  Whitcomb  "  " 

1875.  Oscar  Englcman   "  "  "  April  17,  1873 

1876.  George  Arthur  Willey Feb.  26,  1873  Oct.  22,   1879 

1877.  Louisa  Dwindle   (wid.  Justin) "  "  "  April  8,  1875 

1878.  Isaac  C.  Noe   "  "  "  Feb.  21,  1889 

1879.  Anna  Maria  Noe  (Isaac  C.) "  "  "  Feb.  21,  1889 

1880.  Oliver  R.  King  "  "  "  Nov.  2,   1892 

1881.  Susan  H.  Ward   "  "  "  Sept.  26,  1878 

1882.  Hetta  L.  H.  Ward "  "  "  Sept.  26,  1878 

1883.  Mrs.  Harriet  M.  Harris  (wid.  Will- 
iam A.)    "  "  " 

292 


Chronological   List   of    Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

1884.  Hugh  W.  Hunter Feb.  26,  1873 

1885.  Agnes  A.  Hunter   (Hugh  W.) 

1886.  Mary  Kneisel  (Mrs.  Henry  Leask) . . 

1887.  Henry  D.  Tyler 

1888.  Mary  J.  Fairchild  (wid.  N.  W.)  (wid. 
Charles  H.  Frisbie) 

1889.  William  Groundwater  

1890.  Ann  Groundwater  (William) 

1891.  Anna  Post  (Lewis  F.) 

1892.  Thomas  Angus   

1893.  John  J.  Sinclair 

1894.  Mary  J.  S.  Sinclair  (John  J.) 

1895.  Margaret  A.  Sinclair 

1896.  Sidney  F.  Shelbourne   

1897.  Henry  Hayes  

1898.  Fannie  E.  Hayes   (Henry) 

1899.  Jennie  Knapp  (Mrs.  Edwin  S.  Reid) 

1900.  Lucy  Gilman  Abbott  (Mrs.  Paul  Mar- 
tin)     

1901.  William  M.  Hall 

1902.  Henry  C.  Hall,  Jr 

1903.  Albert  T.  Hall 

1904.  Onderdonk  Angevine 

1905.  Eunice  Ester  Angevine  (Onderdonk) 

1906.  Frederick  L.  Perkins April  30,  1873 

1907.  Frank  L.  Rawlins 

1908.  Harriet  N.  Marshall   

1909.  Harriet  M.  McPherson  (wid.  Geo.). 

1910.  Marcia  S.  Bugbee 

191 1.  Mathew  C.  D.  Borden 

1912.  Harriet  M.  Borden  (M.  C.  D.) 

1913.  William  Caney  

1914.  Henry  D.  Ranney  

1915.  Ezra  P.  Hoyt 

1916.  Rufus  S.  Underwood 

1917.  Almira  J.  Underwood  (Rufus  S.)... 

1918.  Annie  Helmer   

1919.  Edward  B.  Curtis 

1920.  Susan  A.  Curtis  

1921.  Anna  B.  Curtis  (Mrs.  Camp) 

1922.  Cephas  Taylor  

1923.  Ellen    M.    Taylor    (Mrs.    Robert    L. 
Maitland)    

1924.  Irving  R.  Fisher 

1925.  Carrie  W.  Fisher  (Mrs.  William  Ives 
Washburn)   

1926.  Annie  A.  Fisher  (Mrs.  Lefferts  Stre- 
beigh)   

1927.  Walter  L.  Ranney   

1928.  Hannah  Smith  

1929.  Amanda  M.  Smith   (Mrs.  Henry  A. 
Robinson)    

:930.  Jane  A.  Matterson   (William  H.)... 

1931.  Mrs.  Margaret  McDowell  

1932.  August  C.  Ohle  

293 


When  Removed. 

Nov.  30, 

1892 

Nov.  30, 

1892 

Died.  No  date 

Mch.  17, 

1886 

Dec.  24, 

1890 

Dec.  10, 

1873 

Dec.  10, 

1873 

Dec.  is, 

187S 

Oct.  16, 

1900 

Oct.  4, 

18Q3 

Oct.  4, 

18Q3 

Dec.  14, 

1892 

Nov.  9, 

1887 

May  30, 

1900 

Feb.  9, 

1898 

June  21, 

1898 

July  1, 

1891 

Dec.  22, 

1875 

May  29, 

1889 

May  2, 

1877 

April  1, 

1875 

Sept.  30, 

1896 

Sept.  21, 

1881 

1890 


Jan. 

n, 

187Q 

Sept. 

-7, 

1894 

June 

10, 

iS75 

June 

10, 

i875 

April 

11, 

1877 

Mch. 

6, 

1878 

Mch. 

6, 

1878 

Mch. 

12, 

1884 

June 

5, 

1889 

May 

13. 

1885 

April  17,  li 


Mch.  23,  1898 
Feb.  23,  1887 
April  11,  1877 
April  11,  1877 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

j^0-  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

1933.  Caroline  H.  Ohle  April  30,  1873  April  11,  1877 

1934.  Margaret  Ray  {William)   ' April  11,  1S77 

1935.  Amelia  Silker  (Emmler)   "  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1936.  Eliza  Stewart  {Mrs.  Wilson) "  "  "  May    2,    1877 

1937.  Mary  E.  Testman  June  25,  1873  Jan.    5,    1876 

1938.  Amelia  Miller Dec.    I,    1881 

1939.  William  P.  Brown  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1900 

1940.  Annie  R.  Brown  (William  P.) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1900 

1941.  Jane  Wood  (wid.  Reuben  R.) "  "  "  Feb.  27,  1891 

1942.  Louisa  B.  Dewey   (William  C.) June  27,  1888 

1943.  James  Mairs  Jan.    1,    1876 

1944.  George  F.  Brown  Nov.  27,  1889 

1945.  Almira  J.  Brown   (George  F.) "  Nov.  27,  1889 

1946.  James  Simpson   April   1,   1S75 

1947.  Jane  Simpson  (James)    "  "  "  April  I,   1875 

1948.  Edward  F.  Browning 

1949.  Lucy  A.  Browning  (Edward  F.)....  "  "  " 

1950.  Sarah  M.  Washburn   (Mrs.) "  "  "  Jan.    4,    1895 

1951.  Julia  M.  Garvin  (Samuel  B.) "  "  "  Sept.  27,  1884 

1952.  May  Garvin  (Mrs.  J.  F.  P.  Hodson).  "  "  "  Nov.   8,    1883 

1953.  Henry  Aught  "  "  "  Oct.   13,  1884 

1954.  Sarah  A.  Aught  (Henfy) "  "  "  Dec.    3,    1883 

1955.  Edwin  F.  Ward " 

1956.  Abbie  L.  Ward  {Edwin  F.) "  "  " 

1957.  Elizabeth  Heebshen   "  "  Jan.  23,   1878 

1958.  Annie  M.  Drumm  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

1959.  Frederick  Burt "  "  "  May  25,  1898 

i960.  John  McKean "  "  "  May  18,  1892 

1961.  Hattie  L.  McKean   {John) "  "  "  May  18,  1892 

1962.  Rufus  Cbandler Sept.  3.  1873  Dec.  1 1,  1889 

1963.  Anna  F.  Chandler  (Rufus) "  "  "  Oct.  26,   1887 

1904.  Beulah  V.  Stephens  (Charles  J.) Oct.  29,  1873     Nov.  22,  1882 

1965.  Theodore  D.  Bradford  "  "  "  April  13,  1881 

1966.  Willis  B.  Fry  "  "  "  July    6,    1881 

1967.  James  Johnson  "  June   3,    1S74 

1968.  Rosetta  Mitchell    "  "  "  July  27,  1882 

1969.  Susan  S.  Child  (O.  Watson) "  "  "       April  4,  1888 

1970.  Martha  L.  St.  John   ( Mrs.) "  "  " 

1971.  Alice  M.  Williams  "  "  "      Sept.  19,  1S77 

1972.  Louisa  Wcrsbe   {Henry) "  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1973.  Louisa  Gehring  "  "  April  11,  1877 

1974.  Mary  Bruggemann   "  "  "      April  11,  1877 

1975.  Elizabeth  M.  Tennant  "  "  "       May   2,    1877 

1976.  John  Anderson Dec.  30,  1873     Nov.  12,  1874 

1977.  Elizabeth  S.  Adams  "  "  "       Dec.  14,  1876 

1978.  Fanny  H.  Foote   "  "  "      April  1,  1891 

1979.  Joanna  T.  Boyd  (Fred  S.) "  "  "      June   2,    1874 

1980.  Charles  T.  Raynolds  "  "  "      Jan.  20,   1876 

1981.  Adelaide  A.  Raynolds  (Charles  T.).  "  "  "      Jan.  20,   1876 

1982.  Isaac  Evans  "  "  "       Nov.  19,  1875 

1983.  Justine  S.  Evans  (Isaac) "  "  "       Nov.  19,  1875 

1984.  James  Marshall  "  "  "       Mch.   3,   1885 

1985.  Elizabeth  D.  Marshall  {wid.  James) .  "  "  " 

1986.  Waldo  H.  Jordan   Feb.  25.  1874 

1987.  Louise  Jordan   (Waldo  H.) "  " 

294 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

1988.  Elizabeth  Sangster  Feb.  25,  1874 

1989.  Douglas  R.  Satterlee  "  "  " 

1990.  Elizabeth  K.  Satterlee "  "  " 

1991.  Theodore  K.  Satterlee  " 

1992.  Mary  R.  Bremer  (John  L.) "  "  " 

1993.  Robert  Marshall   "  "  " 

1994.  George  T.  Cooke "  "  " 

1995.  Fannie  J.  Cooke "  "  " 

1996.  Mary  S.  Hoyt  (Ezra  P.) " 

1997.  William  J.   Nevius   "  "  " 

1998.  Eliza  W.  Nevius  "  "  " 

1999.  Freeman  P.  Woodbury " 

2000.  Harriet    A.    Woodbury    (wid.    Free- 
man P.)   "  "  " 

2001.  J.  Sutherland  Irving   "  "  " 

2002.  Amanda  F.  Porter "  "  " 

2003.  Eliza  Porter  "  "  " 

2004.  Carrie  Herrmann   "  "  " 

2005.  Henry  B.  Sands "  "  " 

2006.  John  G.  Wardrop  "  "  " 

2007.  John  Allyn "  "  " 

2008.  Jennie  H.  Elgas  (Mathew  J.) "  "  " 

2009.  Margaret  A.  Roberts  (Mrs.  Oliver  T. 
Sherwood)    "  "  " 

2010.  Letitia  D.  Wright "  "  " 

201 1.  Edward  Lewis  "  "  " 

2012.  David  W.  Prime "  "  " 

2013.  Sarah  D.  Milton   (wid.  Alfred) "  "  " 

2014.  Sarah  J.  Milton "  "  " 

2015.  John  Simpson "  "  " 

2016.  Wilhelmena  Duurloo  (wid.  Jacob).. .  "  "  " 

2017.  Mary  Caddoo  ( William) "  "  " 

2018.  Anna  E.  Leader "  "  " 

2019.  Magdalena  Harter  (Henry) "  "  " 

2020.  Minnie  Duurloo "  "  " 

2021.  William  H.  Ashton April  29,  1874 

2022.  Mary  A.  Broome  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

2023.  Leila  E.   Seward    (Mrs.   William  H. 
Gleason)    "  "  " 

2024.  Henry  H.  King "  '"  " 

2025.  Nancy  King   (Henry  H.) "  "  " 

2026.  Ester  F.  Moore  (wid.  William  D.)..  "  "  " 

2027.  Caroline  P.  Hudson  (Ephraim  H.)..  "  "  " 

2028.  Anna  C.  Hudson  (Mrs.  Condit) "  "  " 

2029.  Hannah  E.  Seymore  (Edwin  S.)....  "  "  " 

2030.  Lucien  C.  Warner   "  "  " 

2031.  Keren  Warner  (Lucien  C.) "  "  " 

2032.  Elizabeth  L.  Pigott "  "  " 

2033.  William  F.  Laing  "  "  " 

2034.  Clorinda  Laing  (William  F.) "  "  " 

2035.  Clara  J.  Chase  "  "  " 

2036.  Edward  R.  McLaury "  "  " 

2037.  Bradford  K.   Wiley   "  "  " 

2038.  Charlotte  A.  Duurloo   "  "  " 

2039.  William  Walker "  "  " 

295 


When  Removed. 
Dec.  20,  1879 
Sept.  26,  1894 
Sept.  26,  1894 
Nov.  2,    1881 

Sept.    I,   1884 

Mch.  — ,  1880 
Sept.  27,  1894 
Jan.  24,  1877 
Jan.  24,  1877 
April  18,  1886 


Nov.  28,  1894 
April  11,  1877 
April  11,  1877 

Nov.  18,  1888 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Feb.  16,  1881 
Oct.  17,  1894 


April 
Aug. 
May 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
Nov. 
April 
April 
Nov. 
Nov. 


23,  1891 
21,  1878 
2.  1894 
18,  1877 
11,  1877 
11,  1877 
11,  1877 
11,  1877 
15,  1875 
28,  1894 
11,  1877 
11,  1877 
28,  1894 
28,  1804 


May  30,  1877 
June  5,  1874 
Dec.  21,  1876 
June  15,  1890 
May  10,  1893 
Dec.  10,  1879 
Nov.  28,  1894 


May  29,  1878 
May  29,  1878 

Mch.  16,  1881 
Oct.  21,  1896 
April  11,  1877 
Jan.  16,  1877 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

2040.  Julia  Walker  (wid.   William) April  29,  1874 

2041.  Jane  Simpson  (John)   "      "      " 

2042.  William  P.  McLaury   June  24,  1874 

2043.  Theodora  J.  McLaury  (Wm.  P.) .  . . . 

2044.  Helen  Nicol  (Mrs.  James  Robertson) 

2045.  Elizabeth    Ecclestone     (wid.    James) 

( Mrs.  Elizabeth  Potter) 

2046.  Charles  W.  Benedict  

2047.  Jane  M.  Benedict  (Charles  W. ) 

2048.  Fanny  L.  Benedict  

2049.  Emily   A.   Benedict    (Mrs.   Frederick 
William  Pickard)    

2050.  Garabed  A.  Knajian 

2051.  Waller  Holladay  

2052.  Kate  M.  Holladay    (Waller) 

2053.  Mary  Y.  Chittenden  (Lucius  E.).... 

2054.  Katie  Gordon  (Stephen  T.) 

2055.  Matthew  Crawford 

2056.  Francis  B.  Hornbrooke  

2057.  Agnes  McLean 

2058.  John  C.  Guy Oct.  28 

2059.  Anna  Worth  (wid.  Francis  W.)  (wid. 
Austin  Abbott)   

2060.  Dilla  M.  Hassinger  (Mrs.) 

2061.  Henry  S.  Wellcome  

2062.  Albert  Herbst 

2063.  John  H.  Glossner  

2064.  Matilda  L.  Glossner  (John  H.) 

2065.  Harriet  S.  Nelson  (wid.  Geo.  W.) . . 

2066.  Joseph  H.  Irvine 

2067.  Bessie  Taylor  (Mrs.  Frank  R.  Hough- 

ton)   

2068.  Nettie  L.  Camp 

2069.  Agnes  L.  Lasar 

2070.  Laura  B.  Banks  (Moses  O.) Dec.  30,  1874 

2071.  Horace  D.  Sherrill  

2072.  Lillie  E.  Sherrill  (Horace  D.) 

2073.  John  Philips  

2074.  Sarah  A.  Stratton 

2075.  George  A.  Barrett 

2076.  William  W.  Hemmenway 

2077.  Eliza  Hemmenway  

2078.  Cora  D.  Hemmenway  

2079.  Edward  E.  Jones  

2080.  Arthur  D.  Whittemore  

2081.  William  A.  McKinney 

2082.  Charles  W.  Jenkins  

2083.  Henry  C.  Houghton 

2084.  M.  Ella  P.  Houghton  (Henry  C.)... 

2085.  Fannie  Foster  Jenkins  (Charles  W.). 

2086.  Henry  W.  Hubbard  

2087.  Alonzo  H.  Johnson 

2088.  Annie  E.  Buckingham 

2089.  David  Sinclair  

2090.  Louisa  E.  Davenport  (John  I.) 

296 


When  Removed. 
April  11,  1877 
April  11,  1877 
Feb.  6,  1876 
Feb.  6,  187b 
April  27,  1882 

April  II,  1884 
Aug.  25,  1875 


Mch.  21,  1894 

May   8,  1878 

Aug.  25,  1891 

Feb.  26,  1894 

May  12,  1870 

Feb.  25,  1877 

July   15,  18:4 


1874     Sept.  — ,  1892 


April  18,  1877 
Dec.  3,  1878 
April  11,  1877 
April  11,  1877 
April  11,  1877 

June   2,    1880 

April  8,  1885 
Mch.  11,  1890 
April  25,  1877 
Mch.  28,  1890 
Jan.  26,  1887 
Jan.  26,  1887 
Nov.  27,  1876 
Nov.  6,  1895 
April  11,  1877 
April  27,  1876 
April  27,  1876 
April  27,  1876 
Dec.  3,  1900 
May  3,  1882 
Jan.    4,    1882 


April  3,  1* 


Mch.  27,  1878 
Nov.  28,  1894 
May  15,  1882 
Sept.  14,  1882 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

2091.  Jane  Van  Dorn  (wid.  William) Dec.  30,  1874 

2092.  Sarah  Dyatt  ( William)  "  "  " 

2093.  Maggie  Trinkhaus  (Henry) "  "  " 

2094.  Kate  Kirk   ( William) "  "  " 

2095.  Henry  Flohr "  "  " 

2096.  Elizabeth  Flohr  (Henry) "  "  " 

2097.  Mary  Long  "  "  " 

2098.  Eliza  A.   Taylor  (Isaac) "  "  " 

2099.  Edward  A.  Birnie Mch.  3,  1875 

2100.  Oliver  R.  Patch "  "  " 

2101.  Alburtis  Webb  "  "  " 

2102.  Mary  B.  Webb  (Alburtis) "  "  " 

2103.  Edwin  West  "  "  " 

2104.  Mary  West  (Edwin)   "  "  " 

2105.  Mary  White  "  "  " 

2106.  George  W.  Hale  "  "  " 

2107.  Mary  J.  Hale  (George  W.) "  "  " 

2108.  John  Porteous   "  "  " 

2109.  Margaret  P.  Janes  "  "  " 

21 10.  Levi  W.  Partridge  "  "  " 

2111.  Mary  Foster  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

2112.  Esther  Stedman   (Mrs.) "  "  " 

2113.  Elisha  H.  Allen  April  28,  1875 

2114.  Henrietta  M.   Newcomb    (Harvey)..  "  "  " 

21 15.  Elizabeth    B.    Robbins    (Mrs.    James 

Baker)   "  "  " 

21 16.  Mary  B.  Lambert  "  "  " 

21 17.  Winfield  Robbins "  "  " 

21 18.  Sarah  Browning "  "  " 

21 19.  Maria  A.  Ward  (Herbert  D.) "  "  " 

2120.  Mary  J.  S.  Halsey  (Lawrence  W.).. .  "  "  " 

2121.  Brainerd  T.  Norris "  "  " 

2122.  Elizabeth  K.  Norris  (Brainerd  T.)..  "  "  " 

2123.  William  Tompkins  "  "  " 

2124.  Sophia  V.  Tompkins  (William) "  "  " 

2125.  Moses  Harris  "  "  " 

2126.  Sarah  V.   Harris   (Moses) "  "  " 

2127.  George  T.  Addison "  "  " 

2128.  Sarah  A.  Addison  (George  T.) "  "  " 

2129.  Charles  J.  Moore "  "  " 

2130.  John  H.  Eden   *'  "  " 

2131.  Mary  D.  Eden  (John  H.) "  "  " 

2132.  Katie   A.    L.   Chidsey    (Mrs.   Alfred 

Dana)    "  "  " 

2133.  Daniel  S.  Pillsbury "  "  " 

2134.  Mary  F.  Pillsbury  (Daniel  S.) "  "  " 

2135.  Jessie  A.  Ross  (Henry  C.) "  "  " 

2136.  Fannie  Sanford  "  "  " 

2137.  Carrie   C.   Knapp    (Mrs.    George  A. 

Galindo)    "  "  " 

2138.  Josephine  Pinkerton    (Mrs.    William 

Clark)    "  "  " 

2139.  Dewitt  C.  Grinnell  "  "  " 

2140.  Benjamin  F.  Grinnell  "  "  " 

2141.  Emily  H.  Thompson  "  "  " 

297 


When  Removed. 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
889 

877 

889 

879 
892 
891 

877 
88l 
88l 
894 


April  11, 
April  11, 
April  11, 
April  11, 
April  11, 
April  11, 
April  11, 
April  11, 
Mch.  22, 
Dec.   8, 
April  4, 
Feb.    4, 
Nov.   2, 
June  13, 
Nov.   7, 
Feb.    2, 
Feb.    2, 
Nov.  28, 

May  15, 
Oct.  28, 
April  11, 
Feb.  16, 
June  20, 

April  10, 
Mch.  — , 
Nov.  23, 

Sept.  27, 
Dec.  28, 
Oct.  25, 
Jan.  9, 
Feb.  8, 
Feb.  8, 
Nov.  26, 
Nov.  26, 
Mch.  3, 
Mch.  3, 
April  18, 
May  18, 
May  18, 

May  8, 
Oct.  19, 
Oct.  19, 


875 
877 
881 
877 

895 

882 
881 


893 
876 

883 

883 
890 
890 
887 
887 

877 
887 
887 

879 


Nov.  28,  1894 

Mch.  21,  1879 
Sept.  14,  1 88 1 
Sept.  12,  1877 
April  30,  1884 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Name  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

«£  Kate  L  .Thompson  (Mrs.  Jos.  Wild)  April  &  1S75 

21%.  Evaline  G.Thompson  ..............     u      H      u      April  30,  i«»4 

2144.  Mary  Manning  (void.  Geo.  Heather). 

2145.  Helen  P.   Woodbury   (Mrs.   William     ^      ^      f< 

S.  Seamans)    •,;;.'„'•' ' ' 

2146.  Mary  H.  Chittenden   (Mrs.   William     ^      u      u 

Bradford)    ~"J".'L 

2147.  Bessie  B.  Chittenden  (Mrs.  Frederick  u 

B.Richards)    u      „      (t      Ig;  2J>>   Jg9 

2148.  Frederick  H.  Hatch •  ■  •  •  •  Ma*  31'  Ib" 

2149.  Emily   T.   Hatch    (Mrs.   Elwood   O.     u      u      u 

Roessle)    „  „  „ 

2150.  Carrie  B.  Haseltine  tl  „  „ 

2151.  John  S.  Taylor „  „  „ 

2152.  Isobel  M.  Taylor „  u 

2153.  William  J.  Taylor  „      „      „ 

2154.  Mary  Bates ,,      „      ,< 

^fEtoiiMzziL-mzv.  ::  ::  ::  uov.*.^ 

2157.  Nathaniel  C.  Fisher ,'"1-""' 

2158.  Ida  M.  Ward  (Mrs.  Eugene  L.  Len-     u      u      u      ^^         ^ 

tilhon)    „  „  ,< 

2IS9-  Lizzie  P.  BHss „  „  „  Sept.  8,  1879 

2160.  Minnie  A.  Kobe tt  Sl  „  D  *    6     lg7g 

2161.  Georgie  Virginia  Tucker  tt  „  tl  ^CL-     ' 

2162.  Ella  Corsa •  •• ;;"V 

2163.  Mattie    J.    Thompson    (Mrs.    N.    1.  u  f(  |(  t  jg  fi 

Leganger) •••  •••••  •  ••  •••  '       ' 

2164.  Minnie  E.  Frazer  (Mrs.  Edward  D.     (<      u      <(  t  ^ 

Allin)   •  •  •  •  • 

2165.  Isabel  A.   Frazer    (Mrs.    Wellington     (<      u      u      ^    g     ^ 

Crosby)    ,«  „  „ 

2166.  Charles  E.  Whittemore u  tt  u 

2167.  William  J.  Whittemore „  „  „      N        g    g 

2168.  Andrew  Miles  Payne ■  „  „       ,  go 

2169.  JancA.Fairchild(Mrs.Wm.Leeson)  <(  „  <(      J une   5,   i»9 

2170.  William  H.  Coolidge  ........... M      .,,        '    g 

2/7i.  Nellie  L.Coolidge(Wi  ham  H.).  „      m      „      Mch.  12,    «79 

2172.  ^wiawrfa  L.  Stewart  (wid.  C/«aW«)..  ^ec.    3.    i°/u 

2173.  Josephine  B.  Stewart  (Mrs.  Henry  R.     u      (i      „ 

Price)   <(      „       « 

2174.  William  Carey  •  •  • :  •  •  •  •  • 

2175-  Adelaide    R     Downey    (wid.    Henry  n  u  u 

De  G.  Hastings)    „  „ 

2176.  Charles  L.  Fitch  „  „  „ 

2177.  Mary  C.  Phelps „  ,,  „ 

2178.  George  H.  Clark  „  „  «      April  h,  1877 

2179.  Henry  N.  Lornett ••• „  ((  (<       Anril  n    1877 

218b.  Caroline  Cornett  (Henry  N.) „  „  „      April  \\>  ^ 

2181.  Henry  NCornett,  Jr „      „      „  A£ril  „'f  l877 

2182.  Sophia  Nickels ((      ,,      „  April  11,  l877 

2183.  Lillie  Moore  T  Q 

2184.  Henry  L.  Clapp Ju"e  23-  l8,75  Q  l88l 

218;.  Susan  P.  Clapp  (Henry  L.) „      „  gee    2V   1803 

2186.  Levi  H.  Marstellar ^ec-  23'  loy>5 

298 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

2187.  William  G.  Rule  June  23,  1875     May   3,    1884 

2188.  Elizabeth  Rule  (William  G.) "  "      "       Feb.  19,  1882 

2189.  Elizabeth  B.  Bush  (wid.  Charles  P.).  "  "      "      Dec.  21,  1892 

2190.  Caroline  E.  Bush   "  "       " 

2191.  Anna  E.  Bush   "  "       "       Nov.  25,  189.6 

2192.  Mary  E.  Scudder  (Raymond  B.)....  "  "       "      April  14,  1880 

2193.  Belle  McDonald  {Mrs.  X.  John  Little)  "  "      " 

2194.  Jane  Robertson  (George) June  25,  1875     July  — ,   1875 

2195.  Lewis  D.  Greene .'....  Nov.  3,   1875 

2196.  John  F.  Baker  "  "       '" 

2197.  Anna  E.  Benedict  (wid.  Seth  W.)...  "  "       " 

2198.  George  R.  Benedict  "  "      " 

2199.  Bertha  Sterling   "  "      " 

2200.  Benjamin  D.  Skinner "  " 

2201.  Thomasetta  Skinner  (Benjamin  D.).  "  "       " 

2202.  Barbara  Fairchild   "  " 

2203.  Robert  Downey  

2204.  Nancy  A.   G.   Satterlee    (wid.   Doug- 

1  \  it  a  It 

lass)  

2205.  Annette  Satterlee    "  "      " 

2206.  Lucy  G.  Satterlee  

2207.  Anna  H.  Satterlee  "  " 

2208.  Sophie  Herrmann  (Mrs.  Fred.  Parker)  "  "      " 

2209.  Barbara  Herrmann "  " 

2210.  Carrie  Herrmann  (Mrs.  F.  Niemann)  "  "       " 

2211.  Alice  C.  Wright "  "      " 

2212.  Amelia  Waldron  (Alexander) "  " 

2213.  Letitia  Cunningham    (wid.  James)..  "  "       " 

2214.  William  W.  Oliver "  "      " 

2215.  Dora  Louisa  Wolf  

2216.  Alfred  Bertschky 

2217.  Philip  Lahm  "  "       " 

2218.  Margaret  Lahm  (Philip) "  "      " 

2219.  Pauline  Lahm    "  "       " 

2220.  Mary  A.  B.  Elsesser  (Mrs.) "  "      " 

2221.  Peter  Clark  "  " 

2222.  Gardina  Y.  Clark  (Peter) "  " 

2223.  Michael  Bender  

2224.  Wilhelmina  P.  Hoffman  (John) "  "      " 

2225.  Ellen  Hocking  (Bartholomew) "  "      " 

2226.  Charles  R.  Bennett " 

2227.  Mary  Bennett  (Charles  R.) "  "       " 

2228.  Maggie  Van  Dorn  (Samuel) " 

2229.  Ambrose  E.  Stone   Dec.  29,  1875 

2230.  Isabella  H.  Hall   

2231.  Susan  Howland  

2232.  Emma  M.  Jones  (Edward  E.) "  "       " 

2233.  Edmund  B.   Kellogg   "  "      " 

2234.  Margaret  B.  Stuart  " 

2235.  Elizabeth  Lewis  (Edward) 

2236.  Mary  A.  Taylor  (William) "  "      " 

2237.  Mary  Louise  Taylor  (Mrs.  John  Lind- 

say McCutcheon)   " 

2238.  Carrie  E.  B.  Tietjen  (Chistian  F.)..  "  "       " 

2239.  Angelia  L.  Hamilton  " 

299 


Feb.  27, 

1879 

Feb.  27, 

1879 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

June  16, 

1881 

July  6, 

1894 

Nov.  28, 

1900 

Sept.  11, 

1886 

Aug.  — , 

1880 

May  11, 

1881 

May  11, 

1881 

May  11, 

1881 

Mch.  27, 

1890 

Sept.  17, 

1888 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  ii, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

Oct.    4, 

1882 

Nov.  28, 

1900 

Dec.    5, 

1900 

Nov.  28, 

I8Q4 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

May   2, 

1894 

Nov.  23, 

1885 

July    1, 

1883 

Sept.  14, 

1881 

Sept.  29, 

1886 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No. 
2240. 
2241. 
2242. 
2243- 
2244- 

2245. 
2246. 
2247. 
2248. 
2249. 
2250. 
2251. 
2252. 
2253- 

2254. 

2255- 
2256. 
2257. 
2258. 
2259. 
2260. 
2261. 
2262. 
2263. 
2264. 
2265. 
2266. 
2267. 

2268. 

2269. 
2270. 
2271. 
2272. 

2273- 

2274. 
2275. 

2276. 
2277. 
2278. 
2279. 
2280. 

2281. 

2282. 

2283. 

2284. 

2285. 

2286, 

2287. 
2288. 

2289 


Name.  When  Received. 

Susie  B.   Tompkins Dec.  29,  1875 

Margaret  Pierson    (wid.  Alfred) ||      |J      ^ 

John  Pierson    u      u 

Charles  W.  F.  Brucher (      u      u 

Selma  Schweitzer  u      u 

Louisa  Myatt 

Winfred  Hall  ...... 

Emily  S.  Sanford  (Mrs.  Bramerd) . .  Mch.   I,  1876 

Emily  Wallace  (William  S.) J'      "(      'u 

Zophar  L.  Howell 

Anna  B.  Howell  (Z.  L.) ]]      'f\      \t 

Samuel  Stewart u      u      u 

Emma  J.  Stewart  |(       u       u 

Frederick  E.  Farmer  ((      u      u 

Delia  E.  Emmerson   u 

John  Lewice  •••••     \t      u      |( 

Sarah  Bartholomew  (wid.  Fred.  H.). 

James  M.  Waller  u 

Frances  A.  Waller  (James  M.) 

Linda  G.  Waller  ]]      \t      u 

Fannie  M.  Waller u      (<      u 

H.  Sterling  Kirkland  

William  Liddell  a       (|       „ 

Catherine  Liddell    u      it      u 

Mary  Wilson  u      H 

William  Kemp  |(      u      lt 

Agnes  W.  Kemp  (William) u 

Ida  W.  Horton  (Harding  S.) 

Margaret  T.  Livingston  (Mrs.  Walter 

W.  IVatrous)  "t      u      u 

Theodore  IV.  Trowbridge  (( 

Myra  A.  Trowbridge  (Theodore  W.)     "t      (< 

Janet  Stewart 

Catherine    L.    Taylor    (Mrs.    C.    E. 

Whittemore)    May    3;  1070 

Homer  Bush ])      M      '„ 

Frederick  IV.  Home  <(      u      M 

William  Chester  Phelps  u      tt 

Lillian  G.  Phelps M      M      M 

Edwin  De  Baun   (<       f|       (| 

Seth  W.  Johnson   H      (|      H 

Frederick   W.  Link   n      <{ 

Charles  W.  Link  

Caroline  B.   Link    (Mrs.   George   M.      ^ 

Taylor) u      „      „ 

David  McLaughlin  it      u      u 

Joseph  Wilson   (l      (l      t, 

Homer  Bostwick  

Annie  M.  Bostwick   (Mrs.  Frederick      { 

Greene)    

Hannah  R.   Bostwick    (wid.   Fordyce 

H.  Hawlcy)    "       M      „ 

Homer  Bostwick,  Jr u      u      H 

George  Tolmic  |(      (<       M 

John  H.  Boswell  

300 


When  Removed. 
Nov.  28,  1894 
April  II,  1877 
April  II,  1877 
April  11,  1877 
April  11,  1877 
April  11,  1877 
May  2,  1877 
May  15,  1880 
July  13,  1894 
Dec.  11,  187a 
Dec.  11,  1878 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Nov.  28,  1894 

Oct.  30,  1878 
Nov.  19,  1886 
Dec.  10,  1879 
Dec.  10,  1879 
Dec.  10,  1879 
Dec.  10,  1879 

Feb.  28,  1889 

Feb.  28,  1889 

Nov.  28,  1894 

Dec.  25,  1887 

Oct.  7.  1891 . 

Feb.  14,  1887 

Nov.  28,  1894 
Feb.  3,  1 89 1 
Feb.  3,  1891 
Nov.  28,  1894 


Jan.  25,  1893 
May  15,  18S9 

Jan.  9,  1895 


Feb.  7,  T  89 1 
Nov.  28,  1S76 
Sept.  24,  1885 
Aug.  14,  1883 

June  17,  1S91 

Mch.  II,  1896 
Dec.  1,  1897 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Mch.  3 1.  1897 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No. 
2290. 

2291. 
2292. 

2293. 
2294. 
2295. 
2296. 

2297. 
2298. 
2299. 

2300. 
2301. 
2302. 
2303. 
2304. 
2305. 

2306. 
2307. 

2308. 
2309. 
2310. 
2311. 

2312. 

2313- 
2314- 
2315- 
2316. 
2317. 

2318. 
2319. 
2320. 
2321. 
2322. 
2323- 

2324. 
2325. 

2326. 

2327. 
2328, 
2329. 
2330 
2331 
2332 


Name.  When  Received. 

Gertrude  A.  Smith  (Mrs.  S.  Jennings 

Gorman)    May    3.1876 

Mary  E.  Angus  (Mrs.  Robert  Smellie)     "      " 

Evelyn  Angus  (Mrs.  John  M.  Moss- 
man)  "      it      (t 

Annie  M.  Pillsbury "      u 

Charles  P.  Rodgers  "t      ((      i( 

Anna  B.  Rodgers  (Charles  P.) 

Minnie  B.  Rodgers  (Mrs.  Charles  F.  f       t 

Zabriskie)   ||      "      u 

Samuel  W.  Banning "        (      u 

Benjamin  R.  Gaul 

Emma  Van  Volkenburgh   (Mrs.  Ed-     ^       f       t 
ward  S.  Rapallo)    

Anna  G.  Hunt  (wid.  Thomas  G.)  . .  ■     " 

Alexander  H.  Palmer "      "      "( 

Anna  H.  Palmer  (Alexander  H.)  . .. . 

Alexander  King  "      "       u 

Hattie  R.  Whit  comb  

Sallie    Whitcomb    (Mrs.    George    B. 
Sterling)    (j       it      lt 

William  Johnson  

Frances     T.    Barrett     (Mrs.     0.     B. 
Williams)    

Howard  R.  Martin  "      "(      (t 

Letitia  Lowry   (Mrs.  J  as.  Stewart)  .  .     " 

Bertha  Raddatz  

Carrie  E.  Adams    (Mrs.  Edwin   W. 
Orvis)    

Josephine  Hooker  (Mrs.  Henry  Sterl- 
ing Kirkland)    "t      "      M 

James  F.  Talcott "      <(      f( 

James  Sinclair,  Jr "       "t      u 

Gcorgianna  BarcHeld  ( 

Jennie  Fletcher   

Adelaide    H.     Emits     (Mrs.     Rufus 
A  dams )    

Annie  Mahon  "       (<      (l 

Sarah  C.  Hunter 

Duncan  Frazer '       (|      u 

Leslie  P.  Gillies 

Charles  B.   White " 

Jennie  G.  Strahan  (Mrs.  David  Dows, 
Jr.)    "       " 

Ella  F.  Johnson  (Seth  W.) 

Jane     McKenzie     (wid.     Alexander)       (       (       f 
(Mrs.  James  S.  Keith) 

Laura    H.    McKenzie    (Mrs.    Alfred 

Mcc.  ogie) ;;   ;;   ;; 

Sophie  Lentz   

,  Charlotte  M.  Tolmie  (George) "       f      <( 

Eliza  Inslee  

.  Louisa  Inslee  (Mrs.  Jas.  T.  Mount) .      "       " 

.  Kate  S.  Banning  (wid.  Samuel  W.).      "      "      " 

.  Henrietta  J.  Kincaid  

301 


When  Removed. 

Nov.  28,  1894 


Oct.  21,  1896 

Oct.  21,  1896 

Oct.  7,  1896 
June  30,  1887 
Jan.  8,  1892 


Dec.  29,  1897 
May  31,  1882 
Feb.  26,  1896 
Mch.  12,  1879 
Nov.  3,  1879 

Jan.  24,  1893 
Dec.  10,  1893 

Nov.  28,  1900 
Jan.  28,  1891 
Oct.  16,  1885 
Nov.  28,  1894 

June  23,  1886 


April  14,  1880 
June  23,  1893 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Sept.  29,  1876 

Mch.  14,  1877 
Died.  No  date 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Dec.  14,  1881 
Jan.  21,  1880 

May  31.  l893 
Jan.  9,  1895 

Dec.  5,  1894 

April  1,  1885 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Nov.  28,  1894 

Oct.  10,  1883 
June  5,  1896 
Mch.  29,  1893 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.  Name.    _  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

894 
891 
891 
889 


2333.  Caroline  Gaul   (Benjamin  R.) May  3,  1876  Nov.  28, 

2334.  James  C.   Nicoll    "  "  "  Jan.  28, 

2335.  Elizabeth  P.  Martin  (Howard  R.)...  "  "  "  Jan.  28, 

2336.  Philip  Van  Volkenburgh   "  "  "  Feb.  18, 

2337.  Ann  S.  Van  Volkenburgh  (Philip)..  "  "  " 

2338.  William  R.  H.  Martin "  "  " 

2339.  Charles  H.  Frisbie  "  "  "  April  15, 

2340.  Anna  M.  Sinclair  (James,  Jr.) "  "  " 

2341.  Nancy  McC.  Thurber  (Horace  K.)..  "  "  "  Feb.    2, 

2342.  Sarah  S.  Shotwell  (Mrs.)   "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

2343.  Sarah  A.  Watson   "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

2344.  Sarah  A.  Seymore   (William  P.).... June  14,  1876  Dec.    9, 

2345.  Sarah  E.  Seymore   "  "  " 

2346.  Frank  R.  Houghton  "  April  8, 

2347.  Herbert  R.  Houghton  "  "  '*  Aug.  13, 

2348.  Fanny    B.    Neff    (Mrs.    Samuel    E. 

Ewing)    June  10, 

2349.  Wallace  L.  Thomson  "  "  Feb.  25, 

2350.  Mary  H.  Thomson  "  "  " 

2351.  William   Widdows    "  "  "  April  1 1, 

2352.  John  Thomson  "  "  "  April  11, 

2353.  Henry  Lahm  "  "  "  April  1 1, 

2354.  Charles  L.  Hall  Sept.  20,  1876  Nov.  23, 

2355.  Emma  C.  Hall   (Charles  L.) "  "  "  April  17, 

2356.  Mary  Pattison    (Mrs.) Nov.  1,  1876  Nov.  28, 

2357.  Minnie  J.  McClaury  (Mrs.  George  D. 

Browne)    "  "  "  April  26, 

2358.  Edward  F.  Walker  "  "  "  Dec.  31, 

2359.  George  W.  Somerindyke "  "  " 

2360.  Henry  Howard   "  Nov.  28, 

2361.  Catherine  G.  Howard  (Henry) "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

2362.  Frederick  A.  Phillips Nov.  30,  1876  April  11, 

2363.  Letitia  Jackson  (Saul  F.) "  "  April  11, 

2364.  Hannah  Schuyler  (wid.  Augustus)..  "  "  April  11, 

2365.  Charlotte  Griffiths  "  "  "  April  11, 

2366.  Robert  C.  Robinson  "  "  April  u, 

2367.  James  H.  O'Hara "  "  "  April  11, 

2368.  Julia  E.  Haggerty "  "  "  April  11, 

2369.  James  T.  Greer  April  11, 

2370.  George  Seegcr  "  "  "  April  11, 

2371.  Mary  Burkhardt  "  "  "  April  11, 

2372.  Elizabeth  Rollman   (George) "  "  "  April  11, 

2373.  Catherine  Hcim   (wid.  Jacob) "  "  "  April  11, 

2374.  John  Oelrich  "  "  "  April  n, 

2375.  Isaac  Long   "  "  "  April  II, 

2376.  Evelyn  A.   White    "  "  "  April  II, 

2377-  Phoebe  Long  (Isaac)   "  "  "  April  11, 

2378.  Margaret  W.  McCorkle  (James  H.) .  Jan.  3,  1877  Jan.    8, 

2379.  Ellen  W.  McCorkle  "  "  "  Mch.  17, 

2380.  Elizabeth  O.  McCorkle  "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

2381.  Lowell   Lincoln    "  "  "  April  3, 

2382.  Clara  A.  Lincoln  (Lowell) "  "  "  April  3, 

2383.  Anna  Wilson  (Joseph)  "  "  "  Sept.  24, 

2384.  Augustus  Gaylord "  "  " 

2385.  Martha  C.  Gaylord   (Augustus) " 

302 


882 


894 
894 


894 

S85 
8S4 

877 
S77 
877 
881 
881 
894 

893 
879 

900 
900 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
877 
881 
887 
894 
886 
886 
885 


May  3, 

1882 

Nov.  28, 

18Q4 

Sept.  30, 

1806 

Sept.  30, 

1896 

Oct.  10, 

1888 

Jan.  31, 

18S6 

Jan.  — , 

1877 

April  11, 

1877 

April  11, 

18/7 

April  11, 

1877 

Mch.  s, 

i87Q 

Mch.  s, 

1879 

Chronological   List   of  Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

2386.  Irving  C.  Gaylord  Jan.  3,  1877    June  22,  1882 

2387.  Agnes  King   (Alexander) "  "  "       Mch.  12,  1879 

2388.  Minnie  Macadam   "  "  "      Feb.    6,    1895 

2389.  William  R.  Beckwith    "  "  "       Nov.  28,  1894 

2390.  Benjamin  Griffin  "  "  " 

2391.  Rena  W.  Griffin  (Benjamin) "  "  " 

2392.  Charlotte  M.  Bain   "  "  "       Dec.  15,  1884 

2393.  Wright  Gillies   "  "  " 

2394.  Anna  L.  Gillies  (Wright) "  "  " 

2395.  Margaret   E.   Whittemore    (wid.  Ar- 

thur D.)    "  "  " 

2396.  Thomas  A.  Mcintosh   "  "  " 

2397.  William  H.  Fowler   "  "  " 

2398.  Adeline  Fowler  ( William  H.) "  "  " 

2399.  Ella  Grace  Smith   {Mrs.  Edward  A. 

Starkey)    "  "  " 

2400.  Julius  Augustus  Gaylord   "  "  " 

2401.  Sarah  Ward  (wid. ) "  "  " 

2402.  John  Eidmann   Jan.  17,  1877 

2403.  Barbara  Eidmann  (John)    "  " 

2404.  Benjamin  P.  De  Witt  "  "  " 

2405.  John  M.  Jones  Feb.  28,  1877 

2406.  Etta  O.  Jones  "  " 

2407.  Lillian    M.    Baker     (Mrs.    Downing 

Vaux)    "  "  " 

2408.  Nicholas  T.  Leganger "  "  "       Oct.   14, 

2409.  Thomas  W.  Leslie  "  "  " 

2410.  Sarah  E.  Hayes "  "  " 

2411.  Helen  McRorie  "  "  " 

2412.  Mary    D.     Bradford     (Mrs.     R.     G. 

Dun)  "  "  " 

2413.  Marsena  J.  Robert  (Frederick) "  "  " 

2414.  Elizabeth  M.  Dunn  (R.  G.) "  "  " 

2415.  Frank  H.  Andrews "  "  " 

2416.  John  McGaw  Woodbury   "  "  " 

2417.  Margaret  Mcintosh   "  "  " 

2418.  Allen  Thornburgh "  "  " 

2419.  Ellen  Thornburgh   (Allen) "  "  " 

2420.  Herbert  F.  Pardee  "  "  " 

2421.  Sarah  Lambie  (wid.  George) "  "  " 

2422.  James  A.  Cunningham "  "  " 

2423.  Robert  B.  Gillies May  6,  1877 

2424.  Julia  Schwartz "  "  " 

2425.  Charles  Talcott  "  "  " 

2426.  Mary  F.  Talcott  (Charles) "  "  " 

2427.  Kate  W.  Smith  "  "  " 

2428.  Stewart  W.  Smith "  "  " 

2429.  David  C.  Graham  "  "  " 

2430.  Alice  F.  Bodman "  "  " 

2431.  Marie  Ranney  (Ambrose  L.) "  "  " 

2432.  Lena  F.  Hayes "  "  " 

2433.  W.  H.  Martin  (William  R.  H.) "  "  " 

2434.  George  C.  Perkins  "  "  " 

2435.  John  A.  Van  Buskirk "  "  " 

2436.  Mary  E  .Van  Buskirk  (John  A.)  . . . .  "  "  " 

303 


Mch. 

26, 

1890 

Mch. 

28, 

1891 

Oct. 

3, 

1900 

Oct. 

21, 

1806 

May 

8, 

1882 

June 

21, 

l8qo 

Nov. 

IP, 

i88q 

Nov. 

28, 

18Q4 

Jan. 

26, 

1881 

Jan. 

26, 

1881 

Mch. 

16, 

1877 

July 

17, 

1878 

April 

n> 

1877 

Feb. 

7, 

1889 

June 

12, 

188; 

June 

12, 

1885 

Mch. 

3, 

1870 

Mch. 

7, 

i8q4 

Nov. 

7- 

1877 

Mch. 

7, 

1888 

Dec. 

6, 

1888 

May 

30, 

1900 

Nov. 

20, 

189S 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

j^0                           Name.                                                 When  Received.   When  Removed. 

2437.  Kate  K.  Van  Buskirk  (wid.  G.  Win- 

throp  Root)    May  6,1877    Dec.    5,    1894 

2438.  Robert  McLean  

2439.  Charlotte  W.  Adams  "  "  "      Dec.  24,  1882 

2440.  Sanford  L.  Sayre "  "  "       Nov.  28,  1894 

2441.  Camilla  G.  Rowe "  "  "      Jan.   14,   1880 

2442.  Rosalind  Gillette  "  "  "       Nov.  12,  1884 

2443.  Lulu  F.  Hatch  (Mrs.  Geo.  R.  Preston)  "  "  "       Mch.  14,  1895 

2444.  Jenny   S.   Hatch    {Mrs.   John   C.   F. 

Gardner)  

2445.  William  S.  Hall "  "  " 

2446.  Amanda  M.  Hall  (William  S.) "  "  " 

2447.  Albert  A.  Johnson "  "  "      Jan.   16,   1893 

2448.  Emma  Johnson  (wid.  Albert  A.) "  "  "       May   2,    1894 

2449.  Jacob  R.  Thotnan "  "  "      Dec.   8,    1897 

2450.  Mary  H.  Johnson  (F.  M.) "  "  "       April  16,  1890 

2451.  Robert  E.  Carey  "  "  "      May  30,  1900 

2452.  Richard  H.  Lippincott "  ||  "      Nov.  28,  1894 

2453.  Julia  E.  Baker  (John  F.) 

2454.  Frederick  G.  Hunt  "  "  Nov.  28,  1900 

2455.  William  H.  Stewart "  "  "       Nov.  28,  1894 

2456.  Nahabed  Abdalian "  "  "      Nov.  12,  1895 

2457.  William  L.  Flanagan  "  "  "      Dec.  31.  1885 

2458.  Gertrude    E.    Flanagan    (Mrs.    John 

Porter  Shannon)    "  "  "       Mch.  12,  1884 

2459.  Annette  A.  Bryant  (J.  D.) Oct.  31,  1877 

2460.  Clinton  H.  Smith  "  "  "       Oct.  21,  1896 

2461.  Welthea  C.  Smith  (Clinton  H.) "'  "  "       Oct.  21,  1896 

2462.  Helen  L.  Thayer  (D.  G.) "  "  "      Feb.  14,  1883 

2463.  Carrie    A.     Case     (Mrs.    Edwin    B. 

Curtis)   "  "  "      Mch.  31,  1897 

2464.  Mary  L.  Case  (Mrs.  Julian  Wheeler 

Curtis) ;;  ;;  ;;    Mch.  31,1897 

2465.  Julia  Fleming  "  "(  "t 

2466.  John  H.  Sweetzer 

2467.  L.  Cornelia  Sweetzer  (John  H.) 

2468.  Howard  P.  Sweetzer 

2469.  Alice  M.  Sweetzer  

2470.  Marquis  D.  Thomas "  "  "      Dec.  27,  1877 

2471.  Lydia  Thomas  (Marquis  D.) "  "  "      Oct.  30,  1887 

2472.  Amelia  E.  Thomas "  "  "       Dec.  28,  1892 

2473.  Robert  J.  Loudon  "  "  "      July  20,  1878 

2474.  S.  Jennie  Loudon  (Robert  J.) "  "  "      Oct.  24,  1888 

2475.  Sarah  M.  Wright  (wid.  James) "  "  "       Oct.    1,    1881 

2476.  Mary  N.  Wright "  "  "      June  24,  1890 

2477.  Laura  E.  Jones   (Mrs.) Jan.  6,  1878     Sept.  1 1,  1892 

2478.  John  Davidson "  "  "      Jan.   16,   1884 

2479.  Mary  Bloomfield   (J.  J.) "  "  []      April  II,  1895 

2480.  John  J.  Brown .' 

2481.  Mary  Brown  (John  J.) "  "  "      Sept.  19,  1892 

2482.  Annie  V.  Brown  (Mrs.  Wm.  Bryan). 

2483.  Mary  C.  Brown "  "  " 

2484.  James  W.  Gillies "  "  "      Feb.    5,    1899 

2485.  Anna  E.  Gillies  (James  W.) "  "  "      Dec.    5.    1900 

2486.  Edwin  J.  Gillies "  "  "      Nov.  26,  1890 

304 


Chronological    List   of   Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

2487.  Mary  E.  Macfarlane  Jan.  6,  1878    Jan.  28,   1889 

2488.  S.    Alice    Livingston    (Mrs.    B.    N. 

Smith)   "  "  " 

2489.  Mary  G.  Sheldon   (Lewis) "  " 

2490.  Anna  M.  Shields "  "  " 

2491.  S.  Charles  Welsh  "  "  " 

2492.  Belle  F.  Welsh  (S.  Charles) "  "  " 

2493.  Henry  Prentice  "  "  " 

2494.  Anna  C.  Benedict "  "  " 

2495.  John  M.  Moffatt  "  "  " 

2496.  Jane  Walker  (Mrs.  John  C.  Bruen) .  "  "  " 

2497.  Henry  S.  Hicks "  "  " 

2498.  William  C.  Gardiner  Mch.  3,  1878 

2499.  Margaret  Stirling  (Charles) "  " 

2500.  William  G.  Davis  "  "  " 

2501.  Anna    L.    Gillies     {Mrs.    George    J. 

Schmelze)   "  "  " 

2502.  John  D.  McPherson "  " 

2503.  Alexander  Lambert  "  "  " 

2504.  William  B.  Fitts  "  "  " 

2505.  Frank  G.  Du  Bois "  "  " 

2506.  Clara  A.  Baker "  "  " 

2507.  George  G.  Hall  "  "  " 

2508.  Esther  B.  Hobbie  (wid.  Wm.  H.) .  . . .  May  5,  1878 

2509.  John  R.  Hobbie   "  "  " 

2510.  James  G.  Hobbie "  "  " 

2511.  Annette  Vrooman "  "  " 

2512.  Martha  Leslie "  "  " 

2513.  Louise  Toles "  "  " 

2514.  Richard  McNamee  "  "  " 

2515.  Alice  McNamee  (Richard) " 

2516.  Adeline  R.  Thurber  (Charles  S.)....  "  "  " 

2517.  Elizabeth  K.  Cozzens  (wid.  Theo.)..  "  "  " 

2518.  Charles  E.  Little "  "  " 

2519.  Ida  G.  Little  (Charles  E.) "  "  " 

2520.  Dudley  Phelps  "  "  " 

2521.  Maria  C.  Shepard  (wid.  T.  M.) "  "  " 

2522.  Gorham  A.  Worth  "  "  " 

2523.  Ida  R.Worth  (Mrs.  Reginald  Gordon)  " 

2524.  Charlotte  K.  Cozzens "  "  " 

2525.  Fanny  E.  Nash "  " 

2526.  Harriet   E.    Nash    (Mrs.    Frank    IV. 

Olds)    "  "  " 

2527.  Anna  M.  Nash "  "  " 

2528.  Edgar  G.  Barratt "  "  "      Feb.    4,    1885 

2529.  Laura  M.  Ward  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

2530.  Sarah  C.  Raynor  (J.  A.) "  "  "       Feb.  26,  1896 

2531.  Eliza  P.  Raynor  (Mrs.  J.  A.  Bush).  .  "  "  "      Jan.  30,   1884 

2532.  Anna  Tweedie  "  "  "      April  1,  1891 

2533-  Montague  S.  Tweedie  "  "  "       April  1,  1891 

2534.  Frances  M.  Whittemore "  "  " 

2535.  Emma  J.  Turner June  19,  1878                     1882 

2536.  Eliza  B.  Hopkins  (wid.  Archibald)..  "  "  " 

2537.  Margaret  E.  McName  "  "  " 

2538.  Harris  H.  Hayden  "  " 

305 


Oct.  18, 

1886 

April  11, 

1883 

April  27, 

1898 

April  27, 

i8q8 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Nov.  28, 

18Q4 

Dec.  1, 

1881 

Nov.  28, 

1894 

Nov.  28, 

1804 

Oct.  7, 

1885 

Jan.  30, 

1888 

Sept.  21, 

188 1 

May  15, 

1889 

Sept.  28, 

1892 

Dec.  4, 

189.S 

April  17, 

1889 

Feb.  9, 

1887 

Nov.  28, 

i8q4 

Dec.  4, 

1878 

Mch.  7, 

1888 

Oct.  31, 

i8q4 

Oct.  31, 

1804 

Mch.  25, 

188.S 

Nov.  14, 

1889 

Jan.  21, 

1880 

Jan.  21, 

1880 

Dec.  23, 

1881 

April  3, 

i8Q5 

Nov.  14, 

1881 

History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.                          Name.                                                 When  Received.  When  Removed. 

2539.  Elisabeth  A.  IV.  Tzveedie   (David) . .  June  19,1878  April  1,   1891 

2540.  Carrie  B.  Johnston  (Bartlett  S.) Oct.  30,  1878  Mch.  16,  1881 

2541.  Henry  L.  Thompson  "  "  "  Aug.  20,  1880 

2542.  Flora  H.  Doughty  "  "  "  May   4,    1891 

2543.  James  T.  Mount  "  "  "  Oct.  10,  1883 

2544.  Union  Adams "  "  " 

2545.  Charlotte  E.  Adams  (Union) "  "  "  Feb.    8,    1894 

2546.  Elizabeth  Gordon  (Hamilton  S.)....  "  "  " 

2547.  Franklin  A.  Gaylord  "  "  "  Dec.    3,    1891 

2548.  Mary  Lox  (Mrs.) "  "  "  May    5,    1893 

2549.  James  Hood  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2550.  William  Howard  Taylor  Jan.  5,  1879 

2551.  Mary  E.  Coney  (Dewitt  C.) "  "  "  Nov.  10,  1883 

2552.  Hubbard  Beebe "  "  "  June  21,  1885 

2553.  Sarah  A.  Beebe  (wid.  Hubbard) "  "  "  Feb.  11,  1887 

2554.  Albert  Bellany  "  "  "  Nov.  23,  1S98 

2555.  Charlotte  E.  Bellany  (Albert) "  "  "  Nov.  23,  1898 

2556.  Friend  P.  Fitts  "  "  "  July    1,    1899 

255?-  George  Richards  "  "  "  Oct.  31,  1894 

2558.  Amos  H.  Trowbridge "  "  "  June  26,  1881 

2559-  Julia  A.  Trowbridge  (wid.  Amos  H.)  "  "  "  April  1,  1896 

2560.  Mary  A.  Davis  (wid.  John  A.) "  "  "  April   1,  1896 

2561.  Harriet  C.  Trowbridge  (Edwin  D.).  "  "  "  April  1,  1896 

2562.  Alexander  Noel  Blakeman "  "  "  Feb.  17,  18S6 

2563.  Annie   D.    Brace    (Mrs.    William   A. 

Franklin)    "  "  "  Feb.  28,  1883 

2564.  Franklin  H.  Fowler "  "  " 

2565.  Julia  J.  Fowler  (Franklin  H.) "  "  " 

2566.  John  A.  Caldwell  "  "  "  July  19,   1900 

2567.  Isaac  S.  Piatt "  "  "  Feb.    7,    1894 

2568.  M.  Jennie  Piatt  (Isaac  S.) "  "  "  Feb.    7,    1894 

2569.  Jcannette  A.  Sweetzer "  "  " 

2570.  Mary  E.  Yale  (Mrs.)    (Mrs.  Friend 

P.  Fitts)  "  "  " 

2571.  Julia  A.  Davis  (Mrs.  Edward  Willis)  "  "  "  Jan.  31,   1894 

2572.  Lillian  T.  Davis  (Mrs.  Ruford  Frank- 

lin)      "  "  " 

2573-  John  R.  Hatch  "  "  "  May  10,  igoo 

2574-  Alma  T.  Hatch  (John  R.) "  "  "  May  10,  1888 

2575-  Harriet  L.  Dunham    (Marquise  An- 

tonio de  Viti  dc  Marco) "  "  " 

2576.  James  B.  Dill Feb.  26,  1879  Feb.  25,  1881 

2577.  David  R.  Davis «  "  "  Dec.  15,  1880 

2578.  Emily  V.  A.  Gibson  (wid.  Richard  P.) 

(Mrs.  Emily  V.  A.  Beach) "  "  "  Jan.   12,   1898 

2579.  Zoe  V.  Gibson  (Mrs.  J.  H.  Langley).  "  "  "  Jan.  12,  1S98 

2580.  Anna  T.  Gibson  (Mrs.  W.  R.  Wed- 

derspoon)    "  "  "  May  2,    1883 

2581.  Kate  E.  Eaton  (wid.  George  T.) "  "  "  Jan.  25,   1893 

2582.  George  L.  Walker   "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2583.  Maria  P.  Walker  (George  L.) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2584.  Charles  P.  Walker "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2585.  Henry  R.  Harris "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2586.  Mary  Van  Nest  (Mrs.)    (wid.  Abra- 

ham R.) «  «  «  Nov.  20,  1879 

306 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No.                          Name.                                                 When  Received.  When  Removed. 

2587.  John  L.  Jones,  Jr May  4,  1879  Nov.  28,  1S94 

2588.  Charles  Bell  "  "  "  Jan.  i6;  1884 

2589.  Angeline  A.  Bell  (Charles) "  "  "  Jan.  16,  1884 

2590.  Stella  A.  Bell  "  "  "  Jan.   16,   18S4 

2591.  Jenny  E.  Sweetzer  (George  D.) "  "  Nov.  14,  1897 

2592.  Louisa  G.  Pray  (Isaiah  F.) 

2593.  A.  T.  Baird  (Mrs.) "  "  "  May   6,    1886 

2594.  Addie  T.  Baird  "  "  "  May   6,    18S6 

2595.  William  T.  Baird  "  "  "  April  2,  1884 

2596.  Robert  B.  Baird "  "  "  Feb.   13,  1884 

2597.  Edward  P.  Baird  "  "  "  April  13,  1887 

2598.  George  D.  Baird  "  "  "  Oct.  31,  1888 

2599.  Elvira  K.  Trowbridge  (Fred.  K.)...  "  "  "  Mch.  31,  1897 

2600.  Constance    Saltonstal    Patton    (Will- 

iam L.) "  "  "  Mch.  7,  1888 

2601.  Elisabeth  A.  Blackman  {Alex.  N.)..  "  "  "  Feb.  17,  1886 

2602.  Hattie  L.  Bell "  "  "  Jan.  16,   1884 

2603.  George  D.  Sweetzer "  "  "  Aug.   7,   1900 

2604.  Albert  Taylor 

2605.  George  B.  Bates  

2606.  Samuel  P.  Davies  June  29,  1879  Nov.  28,  1894 

2607.  Daniel  W.  Brigham "  "  "  April  2,  1884 

2608.  John  N.  Velders  '*  "  "  Oct.   18,  1882 

2609.  Mrs.  Amelia  Freeman  (wid.  John  A.)  Oct.  27,  1879  Mch.  4,   1885 

2610.  Charles  H.  Stevens "  "  "  Nov.  11,  1885 

2611.  John  Forgie   "  "  "  Sept.  19,  1883 

2612.  William  J.  Peck  

2613.  Gordon  E.  Henshaw  "  "  "  Nov.  10,  1880 

2614.  Isabella  Clyde  "  "  "  Dec.  28,  18S2 

2615.  Lilian  H.  Dunham  "  "  "  Oct.    3,    1900 

2616.  Helen  B.  Dunham "  "  " 

2617.  William  D.   Smith   Jan.  4,  1880  Nov.  28,  1894 

2618.  Emily  Canfield  (Horace) "  "  "  April  14,  1880 

2619.  Annie  A.  Kemp  (John  M.) "  "  " 

2620.  John  L.  Lister  "  "  "  April  14,  1880 

2621.  Robert  M.  Hart "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2622.  Jonas  R.  Nilsen  "  "  "  Oct.   14,  1896 

2623.  Augustine  Barnum "  "  " 

2624.  William  Johnston  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1900 

2625.  Eliza  Johnston   (William) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1900 

2626.  Sarah  A.  Rood "  "  "  April  8,  1896 

2627.  William  A.  Duncan  "  "  "  Nov.  15,  1882 

2628.  William  C.  Merritt,  Jr "  "  "  Dec.  13,  1882 

2629.  John  B.  Isham "  "  "  Nov.  26,  1884 

2630.  /.  W.  Pine  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2631.  David  Buick  "  "  "  Nov.   1,1893 

2632.  Bowman  C.  Baker "  "  "  Mch.  7,   1888 

2633.  Maggie  J.  Buckner "  "  "  June   9,    1880 

2634.  Joseph  H.  Lorrimer "  "  "  Oct.  31,  1883 

2635.  Union  Adams,  J r "  "  " 

2636.  William  D.  Hatch Mch.  3,  1880 

2637.  Lucy  C.  Hatch  ( William  D.) "  "  " 

2638.  May  M.  Carey  (Henry  W.) "  "  Mch.  15,  1882 

2639.  Samuel  E.  Hiscox "  "  "  Aug.  18,  1891 

2640.  Elizabeth  Hiscox  (wid.  Samuel  E.).  "  "  "  April  1,  1896 

307 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

2641.  Bartlett  S.  Johnston   Mch.  3,  18S0 

2642.  Edward  A.  Strong 

2643.  William  A.  Kirkwood 

2644.  Henry  E.   Simmons   

2645.  Anna  B.  Simmons  (Henry  E. ) 

2646.  William  Lawson  

2647.  Gideon  C.  Segur 

2648.  Alice  B.  Colcord  (Samuel,  Jr.) 

2649.  William  H.  Porter  

2650.  George  E.  Stewart  

2651.  Donna  Maud  Turner 

2652.  Mary  Louise  Smith   (Mrs.  Joseph  F. 

Daly)    

2653.  Scudder  Smith 

2654.  Jennie  B.  Duval  (wid.  H.  H.) 

2655.  Edtvard  W.  Duval  

2656.  Caroline  C.  Haynes  April  28,  1880 

2657.  Martha  M.  J.  Wagner "  "  " 

2658.  Mrs.  Janet  Johnston   (S.  S.) "  "  " 

2659.  Sarah  A.  Jacobson    (Mrs.    Frederick 

Stanwood)    "  "  " 

2660.  Frances  E.  Birch "  "  " 

2661.  Elizabeth  C.  La  Fontaine "  "  " 

2662.  Jane  Jones "  "  " 

2663.  Susan  Jones  O' Shire  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

2664.  James  Blair "  "  " 

2665.  Agnes  Barnes  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

2666.  Maggie  Barnes  "  "  " 

2667.  Grace  M.  Barnes "  "  " 

2668.  Ruel  S.  Gage  "  "  " 

2669.  Addie  Gage  (Ruel  S.) "  "  " 

2670.  Mary  S.  Johnson "  "  " 

2671.  Bessie  S.  Mallory  "  "  " 

2672.  Ellen  E.  Mallory   "  "  " 

2673.  Samuel  B.  Allen  "  "  " 

2674.  Julia  A.  Green  ( N.  W. ) June  23,  1880 

2675.  Clara  Green "  "  " 

2676.  Mason  A.  Green  "  " 

2677.  John  B.  Perkins  June  27,  1880 

2678.  Jane  Baker  (Bowman  C.) Nov.  3,  1880 

2679.  Jane  E.  Baker  (Mrs.  T.  H.  O'Neill).  "  "  " 

2680.  Henry  S.  Gulliver   "  "  " 

2681.  William  A.  Little  "  "  " 

2682.  Charles  Daly "  "  " 

2683.  Charity  Daly  (Charles) "  "  " 

2684.  Mary  E.  Stephens "  "  " 

2685.  Richard  M.  Duncan  "  "  " 

2686.  Mrs.  Eunice  Seaman  (R.  F.) "  "  " 

2687.  Henrietta  B.  Nash  (wid.  Geo.  J^.)..Nov.  7,  1880 

2688.  James  R.  Nash "  "  " 

2689.  D.  Kellogg  Baker Dec.  29,  1880 

2690.  Helen  S.  Baker  (D.  Kellogg) "  "  " 

2691.  Margaret  Brown   (wid.  Eliphalet) . . .  "  "  " 

2692.  Margaret  Campbell  (wid.  James) ... .  "  "  " 

2693.  Elizabeth  W.  Webb  (C.  H.) "  "  " 

308 


When  Removed. 

Mch.i6,  1881 
Dec.  3,  1885 
Oct.  4,  1893 
Dec.  16,  1880 
Dec.  16,  1880 
May  9,  1S83 
Dec.  2,  1886 
Dec.  21,  1898 

May  31,  1882 
Sept.  19,  1883 


April  30,  1887 

Nov.  28,  1894 
May  29,  1889 

Jan.  2,  1889 
Nov.  28,  1894 

Dec.  23,  1884 
April  22,  1896 
Nov.  16,  1884 


May  29,  1884 
May  29,  1884 
Sept.  22,  1887 
Mch.  9,  1889 
July  13,  1889 
Mch.  29,  1882 
Nov.  1,  1893 
Nov.  1,  1893 

Nov.  28,  1894 
Dec.  1,  1885 
April  3,  1886 
Sept.  20,  1893 
Mch.  27,  1890 
April  8,  1885 
April  8,  1885 
April  8,  1885 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Jan.  16,  1884 


Dec.  4,  1884 
Oct.  24,  1894 
Nov.  28,  1894 
April  9,  1890 


Chronological    List   of    Members 


No.  Name.  When 

2694.  Emma  M.  Pinkerton  (John  L.) Dec. 

2695.  John  Lindley " 

2696.  Louisa  L.  Lindley  (John) " 

2697.  Edward  L.  Hart " 

2698.  Grace  Adams  Jan. 

2699.  Franklin  P.  Shumway Mch. 

2700.  Lucy  H.  Shumway  (Franklin  P.)...      " 

2701.  Joseph  E.  Messenger " 

2702.  A.  J.  Messenger  (Joseph  E.) " 

2703.  Edmund  R.  Taylor  " 

2704.  J.  Howard  Williams  " 

2705.  Harvey  B.  Spelman  " 

2706.  Lucy  H.  Spelman  (wid.  Harvey  B.).     " 

2707.  Lucy  M.  Spelman " 

2708.  Elbert  E.  Wadsworth  " 

2709.  Myra  L.  Wadsworth  (Elbert  E.) " 

2710.  Elizabeth  Martin  (Mrs.) " 

2711.  Euphemia  I.  Martin " 

2712.  Elizabeth  Thompson " 

2713.  Charles  E.  Bruce " 

2714.  Emma  M.  Bruce  (Charles  E.) " 

2715.  Charles  C.  Lancaster " 

2716.  Clifton  B.  Bull " 

2717.  Julia  A.  Van  Dyke  (Mrs.  Henry  E. 

Thomson )   " 

2718.  Mrs.  Jane  Miles  " 

2719.  Susan  W.  Miles " 

2720.  Francis  ColTm April 

2721.  Ebenezer  Howcroft   " 

2722.  Anna  K.  Phelps   {Mrs.   William  H. 

Merrill)   " 

2723.  Hortense  A.  Carney  (Sidney  H.)....June 

2724.  Mary  E.  Burr  (Mrs.) " 

2725.  Margaret  B.  Burr " 

2726.  Mary  B.  Burr  (Mrs.  Charles  Gilbert 

Mallery)    ..... " 

2727.  Edward  K.  Figgis " 

2728.  Anna  E.  C.  Devoe  (Charles) " 

2729.  Louise  F.  Hardenbergh  (Thos.  E.)..     " 

2730.  Theodore  I.  Husted " 

2731.  Julia  Alice  Husted  (Theodore  I.)...     " 

2732.  A.  L.  Northrup " 

2733.  Carrie  M.  Northrup  (A.  L.) " 

2734.  Willard  H.  McGregor June 

2735-  Grace  H.  Bell " 

2736.  Jennie  Guthrie  " 

2737.  Ella  Van  Buskirk  " 

2738.  Albert  S.  O.  Dewey " 

2739.  Frank  B.  Carpenter Oct. 

2740.  Sydney  H.  Carney,  Jr June 

2741.  Carrie  L.  Crossingham  " 

2742.  Addie  E.  Du  Bois   {Mrs.  Arthur  G. 

Elbreg)    " 

2743.  Nathaniel  B.  Harris Sept. 

2744.  James  W.  Barr  " 

309 


Received. 

When  Removed. 

2Q, 

1880 

Mch.  27,  1890 

" 

it 

Jan.   17,  1894 

" 

tt 

Jan.   17,  1894 

tt 

it 

Nov.  28,  1894 

2, 

1881 

30, 

it 

tt 

1S81 

a 
it 

Mch.  14,  1895 
Feb.  12,  1896 
Sept.  20,  1893 
Sept.  20,  1893 
April  21,  1882 

" 

a 

April  3,  1890 

a 

a 

Oct.  io,  1881 
Sept.  7,   1897 

tt 

tt 

tt 
tt 

it 

Jan.  24,  1883 
Jan.  24,   1883 

tt 
tt 

it 
a 
a 

May  29,  1895 

tt 

a 
a 

Oct.  26,  1881 

tt 

a 

April  20,  1892 

" 

tt 

April  26,  1893 

tt 

tt 

Aug.  13,  1892 

3, 

tt 

1881 

Nov.  28,  1894 
Mch.  30,  1882 

May  29,  1895 

I, 
tt 

tt 

1881 

July  18,  1892 
Nov.   8,    1899 

tt 

ii 

Nov.  28,  1894 

tt 

«< 

June  12,  1895 

tt 

tt 

Nov.  29,  1893 

5,  1881 


2,  1881 
5,  1881 


28,  1 88 1 


Jan.   16,   1884 
Nov.  28,  1894 

June   7,    1882 

Mch.  28,  1900 
Nov.  28,  1894 


April  25,  1S88 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

jj0  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed 

2745.  William  S.  Wells Sept.  28,  1881 


2746.  Henriette  E.  B.  Lenoir  (Mrs.) "  "  "  May  17, 

2747.  Charles  W.  Scribner  Nov.  30,  1881  Jan.  28, 

2748.  Rufus  Adams "  "  "  Dec.   2, 

2749.  Adelaide  H.  Adams  (Ruf us) "  "  "  Aug.  20, 

2750.  Mary    Leveridge    (Mrs.    E.    Douglas 

Murphy,  Jr.)   "  "  "  Nov.  18, 

2751.  Hinson  C.  De  Mott  Perry  (Bertrand 

J.)   "  "  "  Oct.  21, 

2752.  Elizabeth  T.  Robinson  (Daniel) "  "  "  Nov.  21, 

2753.  Mary  H.  Parker "  "  "  Sept.  25, 

2754.  Lucy  L.  Beach  "  "  "  Sept.  25, 

2755.  Charlotte  F.  Hackley "  "  JJ  Nov.  6, 

2756.  Francis  Brown Dec.    5, 

2757.  Louise  R.  Brown  (Francis) "  "  "  Dec.    5, 

2758.  Harriet  Beckingham Feb.  5,  1882  April  2, 

2759.  Katie  C.  Stone  (Ambrose  E.) " 

2760.  George  Glover  "  "  "  Nov.  26, 

2761.  Manley  A.  Raymond 

2762.  Mary  A.  Raymond  (Manley  A.) "  "  "  April  10, 

2763.  Sarah  H.  Boswell  (John  H.) "  "  "  Mch.  31, 

2764.  Mary  E.  Hart  "  "  "  Nov.  30, 

2765.  Emma  J.  Clow "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

2766.  Henry  M.  Kneedler  "  "  "  Mch.   I, 

2767.  Euphemia  P.  Mason "  "  Aug.  10, 

2768.  Catalina  M.  Adams  (wid.  James  B.).  "  "  "  Dec.    2, 

2769.  Matthew  J.  Elgas "  "  "  Oct.  17, 

2770.  Sallie  Lambert   (Mrs.  Dickinson  W. 

Richards)    "  "  "  Nov.  17, 

2771.  Albert  W.  Warden May  29,  1882  Dec.  20, 

2772.  Ephraim  Cutter ._ Oct.    3, 

2773.  Rebecca  Cutter  (Ephraim) "  "  "  Oct.    3, 

2774.  John  A.  Cutter Mch.  20,  1882  May  29, 

2775.  William  L.  Stowell   

2776.  Emma  G.  H.  Knevals  (Stephen  M.) .  "  "  "  Mch.  28, 

2777.  Jane  Louisa  Brooks  (George  W.)...  "  "  Jan.   19, 

2778.  Harry  Chalmers   "  "  "  Nov.  28, 

2779.  William  B.  Clark  "  "  "  Nov.  25, 

2780.  Ellen  E.  Selkirk  (wid.  William  H.).  "  "  "  Nov.   3. 

2781.  William  H.  Selkirk  April  2,  1882  Jan.  27, 

2782.  Mary  S.  Bremen "  "  Nov.  7, 

2783.  Amy  Sidman   "  "  "  Mch.  22, 

2784.  Louis  O.  Angevine 

2785.  Anna  C.  Coney  (George  E.) May  31,  1882  Jan.  25, 

2786.  Mary  J.  Bigelow  (Charles  E.) 

2787.  Lois  M.  Stockdale  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Dec.  28, 

2788.  George  T.  Stevens  "  "  "  Oct.  21, 

2789.  Harriet  W.  Stevens  (George  T.)....  "  "  "  Oct.  21, 

2790.  Charles  W.  Stevens  June  4,  1882  Oct.  21, 

2791.  Frances  V.  Stevens  (Mrs.  George  T. 

Ladd)  "  "  " 

2792.  Martha  E.  Boe  (Mrs.  Cann) "  "  "  Feb.    3, 

2793.  Anna   L.    Worth    (Mrs.    Benson    B. 

Sloan)    "  "  "  Jan.  28, 

2794.  Marie  L.  Ranke  (Mrs.) Oct.  4,  1882  Feb.  II, 

310 


893 
885 
896 
894 


896 
900 
891 
889 
900 


896 
897 
899 
894 
893 
895 


897 
893 
894 
894 
895 

900 


88s 

887 
887 
883 
894 

893 

887 
896 
896 
896 


886 

891 
892 


Chronological   List   of    Members 

No.                          Name.                                                 When  Received.  When  Removed. 

2795.  Maria  W.  Bell  (wid.  John) Oct.  4,  1882  June  16,  1891 

2796.  Charles  K.  Ober  "  "  "  Jan.  21,   1891 

2797.  Charlotte  A.  Bell Oct.  8,  1882  Dec.    5,    1893 

2798.  Emma  P.  Bell  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2799.  Lucy  L.  Gillett  (wid.  Henry  C.) Dec.  1,  1882  Nov.  12,  1884 

2800.  Fidelia  E.  Roberts  (wid.  Horace)...     "  "  "  May  II,  1886 

2801.  Mary  B.  Dwight  (wid.  Henry) "  "  "  June  16,  1893 

2802.  William  T.  Schley  "  "  "  Mch.   2,   1892 

2803.  Mary  R.  Schley  (William  T.) "  "  "  Mch.  2,   1892 

2804.  Horatio  W.  P.  Hodson "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1891 

2805.  Richard  S.  Clark "  "  "  Feb.    6,    1885 

2806.  Georgia  J.  Clark  (Richard  S.) "  "  "  Feb.    6,    1885 

2807.  Benjamin  N.  Martin  "  "  "  Dec.  26,  1883 

2808.  David  J.  Blauvelt  "  "  "  Mch.  26,  1896 

2809.  Emma  L.  Blauvelt  (David  J.) "  "  "  Jan.   19,  1898 

2810.  Amelia  E.  Blauvelt  (Mrs.  Miller)...     "  "  "  Mch.  29,  1888 

2811.  Anna  B.  Farrier  (John  M.) "  "  "  Nov.  20,  1889 

2812.  John  M.  Farrier  Dec.  3,  1882  Nov.  20,  1889 

2813.  Alexander  Sinclair  "  "  Feb.  17,  1886 

2814.  Frederick  A.  Camp  "  "  "'  Mch.  11,1890 

2815.  Fanny  D.  Peet  (wid.  Samuel) Jan.  31,  1883  Feb.    3,    1897 

2816.  Martha  E.  Carstein  (wid.  Theodore).     "  "  "  Feb.    3,    1897 

2817.  Charlotte   A.    Smith    (Mrs.    William 

B.  Reed)  "  "  "  Dec.  29,  1890 

2818.  Willis  Van  Valkenburgh "  "  "  Jan.   16,1884 

2819.  John  K.  Farwell  "  "  " 

2820.  Charlotte  L.  Farwell  (John  K.) "  "  " 

2821.  John  D.  Long "  "  " 

2822.  Edward  S.  Cornwall  Feb.  4,  1883  Feb.  20,  18S4 

2823.  Emma  L.  Carroll  {Mrs.  Francis  Dana 

Winslow)    "  "  "  Nov.  29,  1899 

2824.  Robert  B.  Baird  May  4,  1879  Feb.  13,  1884 

2825.  William  Bryan Mch.  28,  1883 

2S26.  Frances  McKinley "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2827.  James  Ross  "  "  "  Oct.  22,  1892 

2828.  Abby  Ross  (James)   "  "  "  Aug.  17,  1889 

2829.  Ella     Ross     (Mrs.     Marcus     Eugene 

Downes)    "  "  " 

2830.  Reuben  W.  Ross  "  "  " 

2831.  Nellie  M.  Caldwell  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

2832.  J.  Sinclair  Armstrong "  "  "  Mch.  13,  1895 

2833.  Lizzy  H.  Armstrong  (J.  Sinclair)  ..."  "  "  Mch.  13,  1895 

2834.  Augustus  D.  Ledoux "  "  "  April  26,  1880 

2835.  Ella  Jardine   (James) "  "  "  Sept.  24,  1886 

2836.  Katherine  Lambert April  1,  1883 

2837.  Mary  Josephine  Daniels  "  "  "  Sept.  22,  1887 

2838.  Frank  B.  Mirick  "  "  "  Dec.    5,    1900 

2839.  Helen  A.  Mirick  "  "  " 

2840.  Gertrude  D.  Mirick  "  "  "  June   7,    1894 

2841.  Elizabeth  E.  Clark  (George) June  1,  1883  April  1,  1891 

2842.  David  D.  Davis "  "  " 

2843.  Stowell  W.  Lincoln  "  "  "  Sept.  25,  1890 

2844.  David  B.  Briggs  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2845.  Charles  A.  Jeffers   "  "  "  Dec.  10,  1884 

2846.  Emma  M.  Cochran  (Jones) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1804 

3" 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

•NJo  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

2847.  Irving  P.  Boyd  J  une  1,  1883 

2848.  Josephine  B.  White  (George  W.)...     "  "      "  Mch.  27,  1895 

2849.  Margaret  R.  Agnew   {Mrs.   William  J  une  3,  1883  Feb.    1,    1888 

Bunker)    

2850.  Josephine  B.  Rich  {Clayton  E.) "  "      "  Dec.  12,  1883 

2851.  Jennie  M.  Bell "  "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2852.  Herbert  G.  Thomson  

2853.  Horace  C.  Foote  

2854.  Tacie  McD.  Harper   {Mrs.   Wm.  D. 

Harper)   {wid.  Fletcher  U.) "  "      "  Mch.  28,  1894 

2855.  William  D.  Harper "  "      "  Mch.  28,  1894 

2856.  Carl  H.  A.  Bjerregaard  "  "       "  June   5,    1889 

2857.  Theodosia  Johnston   "  "      "  May  29,  1889 

2858.  Electa  C.  Osborne "  "      "  Sept.  5,   1898 

2859.  Melinda  Foster  {wid.  W.  H.) 

2860.  Catharine  A.  Conkling  Oct.  3,  1883 

2861.  Fanny  Grant "  "      "  Jan.  21,   1885 

2862.  Hannah  Gray  (Moses)   "  "       "  Nov.  28,  1900 

2863.  George  W.  Fitch Oct.  7,  1883  Aug.  12,  1890 

2864.  Louisa  Mount   (James  T.) May  3,  1876  Oct.  10,   1883 

2865.  Alfred  D.  F.  Hamlin Nov.  30,  1883 

2866.  Annie  Findlay  

2867.  Francis  S.  Wynkoop  "  "      "  Sept.  28,  1892 

2868.  Sarah  F.  Wynkoop   (Francis  S.)....     "  "      "  Dec.  28,  1891 

2869.  Elizabeth  E.  Wynkoop  "  "      "  Sept.  28,  1892 

2870.  Henrietta  Wvnkoop  "  "      "  Sept.  28,  1892 

2871.  Harriet  M.  Richards  (George) "  "      "  Oct.  31,   1894 

2872.  Lucy  Thurber   (Mrs.) "  "       "  Jan.  31,   1892 

2873.  Pearson  (Mrs.)    (John  J.) "  "      "  June  12,  1885 

2874.  Mary  Robinson  (Mrs.)   (wid.)   (Mrs. 

George  A.  Wilson) "  "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2875.  Carrie  E.  Dyer "  "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2876.  Francis  D.  Stead Jan.  30,  1884  Nov.  28,  1894 

2877.  Mary  L.  Stead  (Francis  D.) "  "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2878.  Sarah  E.  Fairman  (James)   "  "      "  Oct.  21,  1896 

2879.  Susan  M.  Warren "  "      " 

2880.  Morris  N.  Johnson "  "      " 

2881.  Eugene  Scribner  "      "      "  June  30,  1892 

2882.  Stephen  T.  Gorden  "       *'      "  Dec.  18,  1890 

2S83.  Kate  Gorden  (wid.  Stephen  T.)  (Mrs. 

Thomas  Sidwell)   

2884.  William  S.  S.  Rowland "      "      "  Jan.  24,   1894 

2885.  Lizzie  M.  Roberts "      "       "  April  30,  1888 

2886.  Joseph  F.  P.  Hodson  Feb.  3,  1884 

2887.  Julia  V.  Willis "      "      "      Dec.  27,  1893 

2888.  Elizabeth  White  {William  H.) "      "      "  July  28,   1885 

2889.  Ella  B.  Daly "      "      "      April  8,  1885 

2890.  Helen  B.  White  {wid.  Albert  M.)...     "      "      "      Oct.   17,  1900 

2891.  William  Philips  April  2,  1884    April  5,  1887 

2892.  Sarah  W.  Philips  (William) "      "      "      July  24,  1886 

2893.  Henry  W.  Sackett "      *'      "  April  25,  1888 

2894.  Henry  L.  Freeland  "      "      " 

289=5.  Mary  Freeland   (Henrv  L.) "      "      " 

2896.  Emma  S.  Winslow  (Edward) "      "      "       Sept.  1 1,  1895 

2897.  Henry  W.  Hulbert  "      "      "       Mch.  6,   1889 

312 


Chronological    List   of   Members 

No  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

2898.  Charles  L.  Mead  April  2,  1884  Aug.  19,  1899 

2899.  Isabella  S.  Mead  (Charles  L.) "  "      " 

2900.  Henry  S.  Moore  "  "      "  Feb.  15,  1885 

2901.  Martha  Moore  "  "      "  April  27,  1887 

2902.  James  Fairman "  "  April  18,  1900 

2903.  George  D.  Parmly "  "       "  Dec.  28,   1889 

2904.  Mary  Diefendorf April  6,  1884  Nov.  28,  1894 

2905.  Isabel  Moore "  "       "  May    6,    1886 

2906.  Alice  Moore   May  28,  1884  Nov.  28,  1900 

2907.  Naomi  Moore "  "      "  Nov.  28,  1900 

2908.  George  G.  Shelton  "  "      "  June  10,  1891 

2909.  Ida  S.  Shelton  (George  G.) "  "      "  June  10,  1891 

2910.  Cora  G.  Smith  (Benjamin  E.) "  "      "  Nov.  23,  1892 

291 1.  John  B.  Putnam  "  "      "  Feb.  19,  1893 

2912.  Julia  B.  Putnam  (wid.  John  B.) "  "      "  April  26,  1893 

2913.  Ida  K.  S.  Wiley  (Bradford  K.) "  "      "  Oct.  21,   1896 

2914.  Emily  Van  Volkenburgh   (Edward) . 

2915.  Jeanette  Jardine   (Mrs.) "  "      "  Mch.  15,  1893 

2916.  Martha  Viele   (Mrs.) "  "       "  Nov.  27,  1889 

2917.  Amelia  L.  Hill  (Edward  B.) "  "      "  May  29,  1895 

2918.  Sarah     Simmons      (Mrs.     John     R. 

Waite) "  "      " 

2919.  Susan     Simmons     (Mrs.     Frederick 

Brandstrup)    "  "      "  Oct.    5,    1887 

2920.  Charles  F.  Richards June  1,  1884 

2921.  Ella  Calkins  {Mrs.  Chas.  H.  Lyon) . .     " 

2922.  Edith    Lambert     (Mrs.     William    R. 

Barbour)   "(  "      "t  Mch.  12,  1890 

2923.  Florence  BloomUcld  

2924.  Edith     M.     Gillies     (Mrs.     W.     R. 

Wheeler)  

2925.  Mary  T.  Evcritt  (Mrs.  Ezra  Cornell)     "  "      "  April  25,  1894 

2926.  Agnes  E.  Warner "  "      "  Sept.  16,  1896 

2927.  Florence  A.  Gillies  "  "      "  Nov.  26,  1890 

2928.  Edward  J.  Brown  Oct.  i,(   1884  Mch.  22,  1899 

2929.  Josephine  M.  Brown  (Edward  J.)...  Aug.   4,    1885 

2930.  Catherine  L.  Lyon "  "      "  Mch.  19,  1890 

2931.  Edward  P.  Lyon "  "      "  Mch.  19,  1890 

2932.  John  Foulds "      "       "  Oct.  31,  1899 

2933.  Eliza  B.  Foulds  (John) "      "      " 

2934.  Arthur  Freutid Oct.  5,    1884  Nov.  28,  1894 

2935.  Hattie  F.  Porter "      " 

2936.  Frederick  B.  Crane   Dec.  3,  1884  Nov.  4,   1885 

2937.  Martha  M.  Wygant  (C.  Tooker) "       "       "  Mch.  18,  1891 

2938.  William  H.  Glover "      "      " 

2939.  Sarah  L.  Glover  (George) "      "      "  Nov.  26,  1890 

2940.  Elizabeth  Lendrum "      "      "  May  17,  1899 

2941.  Jessie  Reid  (Mrs.  W.  Oxley) "      "      "  May   2,    1900 

2942.  Josiah  Rich  "      "      "  Jan.   12,   1886 

2943.  Henrietta  W.  Lafayette  (wid.  N.  A.)     "      "      "  May  30,  1888 

2944.  Toyo  S.  Nishimaki "      "      "  Nov.  8,   1888 

2945.  Edward  A.  Newell  "      "      " 

2946.  Eliza  A.  Newell  (Edward  A.) "      "      " 

2947.  Mary  A.   Sloan   "      "      " 

2948.  Henry  W.  Richardson "      "      "  Dec.  14,  1892 

!  313 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.  Name.  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

2949.  Catherine  S.  Richardson  (Henry  W.)Dcc.    3,  1884  Dec.  20,  1893 

2950.  Caroline  C.  Allen  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Nov.  21,  1889 

2951.  George  T.  Thompson  "  "  "  Dec.  10,  1886 

2952.  Sophia  M.  Thompson  (Mrs.) "  "  "  Dec.  10,  1886 

2953.  Bertram  H.  Borden  Dec.  7,  1884  Mch.  24,  1897 

2954.  Katherinc  L.  Mead "  "  " 

2955-  Cornelia  K.  Flagg  {Thomas  J.) "  "  "  April  11,  1894 

2956.  Emily  L.  Flagg  "  "  "  April  11,  1894 

2957-  Jennie  Ferguson   "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2958.  Sidney  L.  Gulick   Jan.  28,  1885  Sept.  20,  1886 

2959.  Theodosia  E.  Rodman  (wid.  Geo.)..     "  "  "  Oct.  20,  1886 

2960.  Donald  Calder  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2961.  Catherine  K.  Tompkins  (Chas.  H.).     "  "  "  May  28,'  1891 

2962.  Bessie  W.  Tompkins  "  "  "  May  28,  1891 

2963.  Annie  L.  Whyte  "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1900 

2964.  Henry  Melville "  "  "  Oct.  21,  1896 

2965.  Edith  T.  Robinson  (Mrs.  Philip  Jen- 

nings)     Feb.  1,  1885  June  7,    1900 

2966.  Gertrude  J.  Chamberlin "  "  " 

2967.  Pauline  Lefler "  "  " 

2968.  Susan  A.  Scribner  (Eugene) April  1,  1885  June  30,  1892 

2969.  Dickinson  W.  Richards "  "  "  Nov.  17,  1897 

2970.  John  Robertson  "  "  "  June  18,  1887 

2971.  Alexandrina  Robertson  (John) "  "  "  June  18,  1887 

2972.  Ann  A.  Parker  (Charles  G.) "  "  "  Jan.   15,   1890 

2973-  Grace  A.  Parker  (Mrs.  F.  R.  Lang- 
dale)   "  "  "  Oct.  29,  188=; 

2974.  Frederick  G.  Mead "  "  "  April  17,  1889 

2975.  Julius  S.  Gilman "  "  "  Sept.  25,  1891 

2976.  Mary  W.  Gilman  (Julius  S.) "  "  "  Sept.  25,  1891 

2977.  William  A.  Shelton "  "  " 

2978.  Charles  H.  Emde  "  "  "  Dec.    2,    1886 

2979.  Adelia  G.  McNamee "  "  "  Oct.  31,  1894 

2980.  Lydia  C.  Stanton  (wid.  Samuel  B.).     "  "  "  April  26,  1892 

2981.  Mary  S.  Richardson  (Samuel  W.)..     "  "  "  Jan.   18,   1893 

2982.  S.  Franklin  Stanton "  "  "  Jan.   18,   1893 

2983.  Emma  McC.  Forgie  (John) "  "  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

2984.  Harold  B.  Shcrwin April  5,  1885  Dec.  20,  1888 

2985.  Florence  L.  Jordan "  " 

2986.  Clara  Agnes  Downey "  "  "  April  17,  1S95 

2987.  Robert  K.  Doivney "  "  " 

2988.  Madeleine    McLean    (Mrs.    John    S. 

Ward,  Jr.)   "  "  " 

2989.  George  M.  Taylor "  "  " 

2990.  Olinda  A.  Camp  "  "  "  Mch.  n,  1890 

2991.  G.  Henry  Link  "  "  "  Oct.    3,    1894 

2992.  Harris  B.  Fisher "  "  " 

2993-  Virginia  Campbell June  3,  1885  Dec.  — ,  18S7 

2994.  Elizabeth  Agnew "  "  " 

2995.  Mary  Agnew  (Mrs.  Heinrich  Meyn) .      "  "  " 

2996.  William  J.  Swords "  "  " 

2997.  Jane  L.  Crane   (Mrs.) "  "  "  Jan.  30,   1805 

2998.  Robert  L.  Kav  "  "  "  Dec.  21,  1892 

2999-  Margaret  T.  Kay  (Robert  L.) "  "  "  Dec.  21,  1892 

3000.  William  H.  Duval June  7,  1885 

3H 


Chronological   List   of    Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3001.  Evaline  M.  Thomson June   7,  1885 

3002.  Frederick  A.  Taylor  "  "  " 

3003.  Robert  L.  Boyd Sept.  30,  1885     Feb.  1 1,  1892 

3004.  Harriet  D.  Boyd  (Robert  L.) "  "  " 

3005.  Lizzie  M.  Willis  "  "  "       Dec.  27,  1893 

3006.  Janet  Inglis  McLean  (John) "  "  "      Nov.    1,    1893 

3007.  Lewis  S.  Judd,  Jr Dec.  2,  1885 

3008.  Eliza  G.  Starr  "  "  "       Nov.  18,  1896 

3009.  Russell  A.  Bigelow "  "  "      Nov.  2,    1890 

3010.  John  C.  Knox "  "  "      Jan.    6,    1887 

3011.  Josephine  Morss   (wid.  James) "  "  "      Oct.   14,  1896 

3012.  Samuel  W .  Richardson Dec.  6,  1885    Jan.   18,   1893 

3013.  Edward  Stuart  Cragin  "  "  "       Dec.  28,  1887 

3014.  Clara  B.  Pardee  {Ensign  B.) "  "  " 

3015.  Claibone  W.  Kane  "  "  "       Nov.  28,  1894 

3016.  Sarah  F.  Dodge Mch.  29,  1882    Nov.  21,  1894 

3017.  Edmund  K.  Alden Feb.  3,  1886    Jan.   11,   1888 

3018.  Frank  W.  Olds  "  "  " 

3019.  Dwight  W.  Hunter " 

3020.  Cornelia  T.  Hunter  (D wight  W.)...     "  "  "      Mch.  26,  1894 

3021.  Frederick  K.  Blanchard  "  "  "      Jan.   11,   1888 

3022.  Frank  M.  Davis  "  "  "       May  20,  1896 

3023.  Lizzie  McC.  Davis  (Frank  M.) "  "  "       May  20,  1896 

3024.  S.  Cythera  Twombly  (wid.  John  F.).     "  "  "       Nov.  28,  1900 

3025.  Frances  H.  Beames  (William  E.)...     "  "  "       Sept.  10,  1888 

3026.  James  E.  Nichols  "  "  "       Sept.  10,  1898 

3027.  John  K.  Cilley "  "  " 

3028.  Helen  L.  Cilley  (John  K.) "  "  "      May  31,  1895 

3029.  Sara  E.  Leland  (Mrs.) "  "  "      Mch.  31,  1897 

3030.  Anna  E.  Tollman  (wid.  H.  C.) "  "  " 

3031.  Janet  Gillies  (wid.  James) "  "  " 

3032.  Agnes  M.  Gillies "  "  " 

3033.  Frank  S.  Evans "  "  "      May   2,    1900 

3034.  Emma  L.  Evans  (Frank  S.) "  "  "       May   2,    1900 

3035.  Irving  R.  Fisher "  "  " 

3036.  Carrie  B.  Fisher  (Irving  R.) "  "  " 

3037-  Jessie  T.  Loudon  Feb.  7,  1886    Oct.  24,  18S8 

3038.  Frederick  W.  Loudon "  "  "      Oct.  24,  1S88 

3039.  John  F.  Twombly "  "  "      Nov.  28,  1900 

3040.  Grace  M.   Marshall    (Mrs.  John  H. 

Kimble)   "  "  " 

3041.  Annie  Michel  "  "  "      Nov.  19,  1890 

3042.  Frances  Colby  (William  H.) "  "  "      Nov.  28,  1894 

3043.  James  A.  Trowbridge  Mch.  31,  1886    Jan.    8,    1896 

3044.  Jeanie  N.  Trowbridge  (James  A.). ..     "  "  "      Jan.    8,    1896 

3045.  Frederick  E.  Fuller  "  "  "      Oct.  23,  1889 

3046.  Charles  Bell   "  "  "       Mch.  19,  1891 

3047.  Angeline  A.  Bell   (Charles) "  "  "      Oct.  25,  1899 

3048.  Stella  A.  Bell  "  "  "      Oct.  25,  1899 

3049.  Grace  H.  Bell    (Mrs.  Frank  Russell 

Johnson)    "  "  "      Sept.  24,  1894 

3050.  Catherine  B.  Burr April  4,  1886    Oct.  23,  1889 

3051.  Emma  J.  Wiswall  (Joseph  C.) "  "  " 

3052.  Lucy  Florence  Browning  (Mrs.  Geo. 

P.  Biggs) '•  "  " 

315 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3053.  James  Hopkins April  4,  1S86 

3054.  Henry  J.   Whittemore  "  "       "       Oct.  28,  1891 

3055.  Edward  H.  Noice,  Jr "  "      " 

3056.  William  D.  Thomson "  "      " 

3057.  Herbert  H.  Griff  en  "  "      "      Nov.  19,  1897 

3058.  Emma  Anderson  (wid.  David) June  1,  1886    Oct.  31,  1888 

3059.  Emma  Anderson  "  "       -       Oct.  31,   1888 

3060.  James  F  .McDonald "  "      "      Mch.  23,  1892 

3061.  George  N.  Sanders "  "       "      Oct.    5,    1887 

3062.  Martin  L.  Lee  "  "      "       Feb.    1,    1899 

3063.  Marion  B.  Lee  (Martin  L.) "  "      "      Feb.    1,    1899 

3064.  Ellen  Dalrymple  (wid.  Alexander)..     "  "      "      April  3,  1895 

3065.  Cora  L.  Graham  (L.  F.) June  6,  1886    Jan.  24,   1893 

3066.  Ruth     Lambert     (Mrs.     Knight     D. 

Cheney)   "  "      " 

3067.  Walter  Bloomficld   "  "      " 

3068.  Helen  E.  Noice  (Edward  H.) "  "      " 

3069.  Christian  Schcel  "  "      "      Nov.  28,  1894 

3070.  Kate   Van   Volkcnburgh    (Mrs.   Rob- 

ert A.  Sands)   "  "      " 

3071.  George  W.  Brooks "  "       "       Nov.  28,  1900 

3072.  Albert  Shunk  Sept.  29,  1886     Mch.  27,  1889 

3073-  William  N.  Hendrie Dec.  1,  1886     Sept.  26,  1894 

3074.  Oliver  H.  Corsa "  "      " 

3075.  Eleanor  W.  Corsa  (Oliver  H.) "  "      " 

3076.  Walter  M.  Barrows  "  "       "       Nov.  21,  1888 

3077.  Mary  D.  Barrows  (Walter  M.) "  "       "       Nov.  21,  1888 

3078.  Margaret  H.  Porter  (William  H.)..Dec.  5,  1886  

3079.  Andrew  G.  Thomson  "  "  " 

3080.  Isabella  Thomson  (Andrew  G.) "  "  " 

3081.  Isabella  A.  Adams  (Albert) "  "       "       Nov.  21,  1894 

3082.  Horace  A.  Keith "  "  " 

3083.  Elijah  A.  Keith "  "  "      Nov.  19,  1891 

3084.  John  S.  Warren "  "  " 

3085.  Sarah  B.  Warren   (John  S.) "  "  " 

3086.  Grace  J.  Coe  (wid.  Samuel  G.) Feb.  2,  1887     Nov.  28,  1894 

3087.  Jessie  L.  Miller  (Mrs.  Alex.  Nicol)..      "  "       "       Nov.  4,   1891 

3088.  Alexander  Tison  "  "  " 

3089.  Mary  E.  Hayes  "  "  "      Mch.  23,  1892 

3090.  Cornelia  G.  Hayes  "  "  "      Nov.  27,  1889 

3091.  Jennie  M.  Greene  (Lewis  D.) "  "  " 

3092.  Harry  D.   Sheldon   "  "  "      Dec.    5,    1888 

3093.  Pamela  W.  Lyall  (William) "  "  " 

3094.  Philo  P.  Safford  "  "  "       Feb.  21,  1891 

3095-  David  Jardinc Feb.  6,  1887    June  3,    1892 

3096.  Mary  L.  Jardinc  (wid.  David) "  "  "       Sept.  11,  1895 

3097.  Mary  E.  Lyall  "  "  "       Sept.  18,  1892 

3098.  J cnnette  L.  Lyall  '. "  "  " 

3099.  Kittle  E.  Lyall "  "  " 

3100.  William  P.  Seymour "  "  " 

3101.  Isabella  D.  Armstrong    (Mrs.  J.   E. 

L.  Davis)   "  "  "      Feb.    5,    1896 

3102.  Winfield  D.  Loudon  "  "  "       Oct    24    1888 

3103.  Frederick  Robbins  "  "  "      Feb     7,'  1894 

3104.  Henry  W.  Willis "  "  "       Nov.  28,  1894 

316 


Chronological   List   of    Members 


N-0_  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3105.  George  O.  Gaidzakian  {name  changed 

to  George  H.  Godson) Feb.  6,  1887 

3106.  Fannie  E.  Reynolds "t  "(  u 

3107.  Hattie  A.  Reynolds  u  u  u 

3108.  Lida  Germaine 

3109.  Louise    Germaine    (Mrs.    George    P.     ^  (  u 

Cashing)   "      u      u 

3110.  Mary  W.  H.  Hesland  

3111.  Edward  W.  North  Mch.  30,1887 

31 12.  Alexander  Callender   

3113.  William  Gordon "  u 

31 14.  Janet  Gordon  (William)    

3115.  Jennie  L.  Foster  April  3,  1887 

31 16.  William  C.  Liddell  "  i( 

31 17.  Louise  de  Forest  Haynes 

3118.  Kate  C.  Miller "u      "t      u 

3119.  Lawrence  P.  Adams  (t      u      (i 

3120.  Jessie  Cameron  

3121.  Charles  L.  Taylor 

3122.  Harriet  S.  Bartlett June    I,  1887 

3123.  Jennie  Bartlett 

3124.  William  B.  Macdonald  

3125.  Silas  H.  Paine {<      u      u 

3126.  Mary  S.  Paine  (Silas  H.) 

3127.  Anna  Weir  

3128.  Jessie  Weir  '         | 

3129.  Fannie  Weir . 

3130.  Harriet  Gardiner  (wid.  Thomas).... 

3131.  Emma  Gardiner    

3132.  Florence  Gardiner 

3133.  Hattie  Gardiner June   5,  1887 

3134.  Frederick  Gardiner 

3135.  Eleanor  B.  Weir 

3136.  George  B.  Corsa  

3137.  Emily  JCnevals 

3138.  Charles  M.  Demond Sept.  28,  1887 

3139.  Sylvester  S.  Bliss 

3140.  Anna  M.  Phelps  (George) 

3141.  Henry  Gray Oct.     2,  1887 

3142.  Albert  A.  Johnson,  Jr 

3143.  Mary  E.  Lyon  (Edward  P.) Nov.  30,  1887 

3144.  Lizzie  F.  Childs  (H.  C.) 

3145.  George  M.  Swift 

3146.  Bessie  P.  E.  Swift  (George  M.) "      "      "( 

3147.  Sarah  C.  Neal  

3148.  Trumbull  W.  Cleaveland  

3149.  Antoinette    H.     Cleaveland     (Trum- 

bull w.) "    ;;    " 

3150.  Thomas  G.  Cumnock 

3151.  Mary  J.  Odell  ]]      [[      )] 

3152.  Emily  Cole   

3153.  Alfred  G.  Reeves 

3154.  Jessie  Bemd  (Mrs.  Jos.  H.  Bryan) .  .Dec.    4,  1887 

3155.  M.  H.  Levonian "      "      "      June    1, 

3156.  Marion  Anderson  "      "  Sept.  26,  1894 

31/ 


Oct.  13,  1899 


June  12,  1895 

Jan.  22,  1890 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Oct.  8,  1887 
Oct.    8,    1887 

April  18,  1888 
Nov.  21,  1900 
Nov.  28,  1891 


Dec.    1,    1897 
Mch.  12,  1890 

Jan.  22,   1890 


Nov.  28,  1900 
Nov.  28,  1900 
Nov.  28,  1900 
Sept.  27,  1893 
Sept.  27,  1893 
Sept.  27,  1893 
Sept.  27,  1893 
Sept.  27,  1893 
Nov.  28,  1900 


April  26,  1893 


May   2,    1894 
Mch.  19,  1890 


Nov. 
Oct. 
Oct. 

Mch. 


Oct. 

Nov. 
Nov, 


28, 
23, 
23, 
28, 


1094 
1895 
1895 
189 1 


28,  1S96 
28,  1894 
21,  1889 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

3157.  William  L.  Evans Feb.  1,  1888 

3158.  Annie  H.  Evans  (William  L.) "  " 

3159.  Alexander  S.  McLeod "  " 

3160.  Richard  Cox "  " 

3161.  Mary  E.  Cox  (Richard) 

3162.  Mary  L.  Cox  "  " 

3163.  Mary  A.  Fay  (Thomas) "  " 

3164.  Martha  A.  Churchill   (Newton) "  " 

3165.  Ross  W.  Weir  "  " 

3166.  William  B.  Weir "  " 

3167.  Hagob  Nazarian "  " 

3168.  Guy  Maine   "  " 

3169.  Lincoln  C.  Shuey  "  " 

3170.  Ella  F.  Washburn , Feb.  5,  1888 

3171.  Emma  R.  Shortmeyer  (Mrs.  Cornelius 

Beck)   "  "  " 

3172.  Joseph  H.  Bryan "  " 

3173.  Alexander  Lang   Mch.  28,  1888 

3174.  Mary  S.  Lang  (Alexander) "  " 

3175.  Alice  M.  Reynolds  "  "  " 

3176.  Alice  Emmons  "  "  " 

3177.  William  A.  Cole  "  "  " 

3178.  Mary  E.  Cole  (wid.  William  A.)....  "  "  " 

3179.  Mary  Anna  Cole "  "  " 

3180.  Motochica  Tsuda "  "  " 

3181.  Fanny  Hastings  (Thomas  S.) "  "  " 

3182.  Thomas  Hastings  "  "  " 

3183.  Henry  De  G.  Hastings  "  "  " 

3184.  Isabel  Hastings  "  "  " 

3185.  Louis  F.  Bishop April  1,  1888 

3186.  Charles  IV.  Lyman "  "  " 

3187.  Arthur  H.  Cilley "  "  " 

3188.  Mildred  S.  Pillsbury  "  "  " 

3189.  Annie  Griff en  "  "  " 

3190.  Evalina  H.  Fairman   May  23,1888 

3191.  George  E.  Rumple  "  "  " 

3192.  James  T.  Brinckerhoff "  "  " 

3193.  Frank  Russell  "  "  " 

3194.  Aurelia  H.  Russell  (Frank) "  "  " 

3195.  Pauline  M.  "Russell   "  "  " 

3196.  Herbert  D.  Russell "  "  " 

3197.  Frank  H.  Russell  "  "  " 

3198.  Burt  N.  Bridgman  "  "  " 

3199.  Ellen  B.  Spofford  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

3200.  Guy  R.  McLane May  27,  1888 

3201.  Jane  Simmons  (Mrs.  W.  E.  Sayre)  . .  "  "  " 

3202.  Rufus  T.  Lincoln  "  "  " 

3203.  Nathaniel  Michel "  "  " 

3204.  Mary  A.  Marsteller  (Levi  H.) "  "  " 

3205.  Margaret  Gray  (Mrs.  Thos.  Rollands)  "  "  " 

3206.  Julia  Fritsch  (Mrs.  Henry  Gray)  ... .  "  "  " 

3207.  Mary  E.  Daniels .* "  "  " 

3208.  Mary  Beecher Nov.  28,  1888 

3209.  John  F.  Barry  "  "  " 

3210.  Sarah  A.  Barry  (John  F.) "  "  " 

318 


When  Removed. 

Sept.  20,  1893 

Sept.  20,  1893 

July    9,  18S8 

April  io,  1897 

Nov.  28,  1900 

Nov.  28,  1900 

Mch.  22,  1^93 

Mch.  22,  1893 

Feb.    9,  189S 

May  10,  1S88 

Mch.  27,  1890 

Oct.  21,  1891 

Nov.  28,  1894 


Nov.  I,  1893 
Nov.   1,    1893 

Mch.  21,  1900 
April  15,  1889 
Mch.  18,  1891 
Mch.  18,  1891 
Nov.  8,  1894 
May  24,  1893 
May  24,  1893 
Feb.  16,  1893 
May  24,  1893 
Jan.  25,  1893 
Nov.  28,  1900 


Nov.  I,  1893 
Oct.  21,  1896 
May  4,  1891 

Dec.  30,  1891 
Dec.  30,  1891 
Dec.  30,  1891 
Dec.  25,  18S9 
Dec.  30,  1S91 
Oct.  25,  1899 


July  IS,  1890 
Nov.  19,  1890 
April  17,  1893 
Nov.  28,  1900 

Nov.  28,  1894 
July  9,  1893 


Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.                          Name.                                                 When  Received. 

321 1.  Emma  D.  Van  Vleck   (Mrs.) Nov.  28,  1888 

3212.  Jasper  Van  Vleck "  "  " 

3213.  Anthony  T.  Buchanan "  "  " 

3214.  Frederic  G.  Smedley  "  "  " 

3215.  Emma  Z.  Smedley  (Frederic  G.)  ... .  "  "  " 

3216.  Walter  O.  Whitcomb "  "  " 

3217.  Annie    A.    Reed    (Mrs.    Arthur    A. 

Swany)    "  "  " 

3218.  Mary  A.  Dorman  (Richard  A.) "  "  " 

3219.  Nellie  W.  Keith  (Horace  A.) "  "  " 

3220.  Margaret  Anna  Williams "  "  " 

3221.  Cephas  Brainerd,  Jr "  "  " 

3222.  Harriet    Arnold    Brainerd     (Cephas, 

Jr.)    *'  "  " 

3223.  Emma  Gilson  (wid.  William  H.) "  "  " 

3224.  Fanny  Elizabeth  Gilson  (Mrs.  George 

W.  Terriberry)  "  "  " 

3225.  William  N.  Gilson  "  "  " 

3226.  Walter  Gilson    "  "  " 

3227.  Mary  J.  Griffith  (G.  W.) "  "  " 

3228.  Margarette  E.  Griffith "  "  " 

3229.  Susan  D.  Griffith  "  "  " 

3230.  Mary  J.  Griffith "  "  " 

3231.  Charles  Emmons Jan.  30,  1889 

3232.  Ella  J.  Emmons "  "  " 

3233.  Caroline  T.  Lincoln   (R.  P.) "  "  " 

3234.  Anna  H.  Tyler "  "  " 

3235.  Charles  Dresback  "  "  " 

3236.  Catherine  A.  Dresback  (wid.  Chas.).  "  "  " 
2,22,7.  Irving  C.  Gaylord "  "  " 

3238.  John  K.  Pirrie "  "  " 

3239.  Lillian  M.  Keith  (Elijah  A.) "  "  " 

3240.  James  Girvan "  "  " 

3241.  L.  Scott  Kemper "  "  " 

3242.  Christina  Grant "  "  " 

3243.  Kenneth  J.  Muir "  "  " 

3244.  Jane  M.  Miller  (Mrs.) "  "  " 

3245.  Franklin  H.  Warner  Feb.  3,  1889 

3246.  Lucien  T.  Warner "  "  " 

3247.  Griffith  W.  Griffith  "  "  " 

3248.  Edward  Hammann "  "  " 

3249.  Anna  W.  Whitcomb  {Walter  O.)...  "  " 

3250.  Marguerite  L.  Winslow  "  "  " 

3251.  Nellie  Y.  Taylor  {John  S.) "  "  " 

3252.  Eliza  White  (Mrs.) April  3,  1889 

3253.  Larkin  G.  Mead April  7,  1889 

3254.  Joseph  Darwin  Nagel "  "  " 

3255.  Anna  C.  Rumrill  (wid.  Marshall) ...  May  29,  i£~ 

3256.  Hannah  P.  Miller  (James  W.) 

3257.  Arthur  L.  Mitchell 

3258.  Helen  Brown   (Mrs.  Francis  Allan) . 

3259.  Sarah  H.  Abegg  (Henry) 

3260.  David  Cathro  

3261.  J.  J.  Carrier  (Miss) 

3262.  Robert  L.  Maitland  

319 


When  Removed. 
Oct.  21,  1896 
June  7,  1894 
Nov.  28,  1894 
Mch.  18,  1896 
Mch.  18,  1896 
Nov.  8,   1894 

Jan.  13,   1891 

Sept.  25,  18S9 
July  24,  1898 

Dec.  27,   1892 


June  5,  1899 
Dec.  21,  1900 


June  19,  189 1 
June  8,  1892 

June  7,  1S93 
Nov.  19,  1891 
Nov.  23,  1892 

Jan.  30,  1895 
Oct.  8,  1890 
Feb.  22,  1893 


Jan.  2,  1891 

Nov.  8,  1894 

Sept.  11,  1895 

Oct.  10,  1894 

Feb.  25,  1 89 1 

Feb.  3,  1892 

Jan.  15,  1890 

June  17,  1896 

Oct.  23,  1895 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

3263.  Oliver  O.  Howard  May  29,  1889 

3264.  Elizabeth  A.  Howard  (Oliver  O.)...     " 

3265.  Bessie  Howard   "  "       " 

3266.  James  W.  Howard "  "      " 

3267.  Harry  S.  Howard "  " 

3268.  John  Howard "  "      " 

3269.  James  W.  Miller June  2,  1889 

3270.  S.  Frances  Bates "  " 

3271.  Louisa  Johnson  "  "      " 

3272.  Ella  F.  Johnson  "  "      " 

3273.  Florence  Annette  Bryant "  "       " 

3274.  Hortense  A.  Carney "  "      " 

3275.  Harry  O.  Logue  " 

3276.  Edward  0.  Lyman  "  "      " 

3277.  Charlotte  Sage   (wid.  William  H.)..Oct.  2,  18S9 

3278.  William  G.  Sage  "  " 

3279.  Julia  C.  Sage  "  "       " 

3280.  Charles  L.  Bliss   "  "      " 

3281.  James  Whyte  Oct.  6,  1889 

3282.  Ellen  R.  Jones  (Mrs.  Jas.  Whyte)...     "  "      " 

3283.  Henry  Da  Costa  "  "      " 

3284.  William  S.  Morton Nov.  27,  1889 

3285.  Minnie  F.  M.  Hamlin  (Alfred  D.  F.)     "  "      " 

3286.  James  W.  McLane  "  "      " 

3287.  Adelaide  L.  McLane  (James  W.) "  "      " 

3288.  Thomas  L.  Hamilton  "  "      " 

3289.  Charlotte  M.  Hamilton  (Thomas  L.)  .Dec.  1,  1889 

3290.  William  H.  Foster "  "     - " 

3291.  Francis  Allan  "  "      " 

3292.  Thomas  S.  McLane  "  "      " 

3293.  Caroline  A.  Cochran  "  "       " 

3294.  Jerusha  A.  Marshall Jan.  29,  1890 

3295.  William  Charles   "  "       " 

3296.  Sarah  E.  Douglass  (wid.  David)....     "  "      " 

3297.  Clara  Douglass "  "      " 

3298.  Anna  D.  Ballantine  (William) "  "      " 

3299.  Janet  R.  Chesney   "  "      *' 

3300.  Emma  E.  Schneider "  "      " 

3301.  Emma  H.  Smedley Feb.  2,  1890 

3302.  Thomas  S.  Hope  Simpson April  2,  1890 

3303.  L.  Henry  Cobb  

3304.  Harriet  J.  Cobb   (L.  Henry) 

3305.  Cortez  Nelson   

3306.  John  G.  Voorhees 

3307.  Anna  C.  Voorhees  (John  G.) 

3308.  Carrie  C.  Voorhees  (Mrs.  Roland  C. 

Cook )  

3309.  Anna  A.  Voorhees  

3310.  Emma  V.  Worstell  (wid.  Gaylord  M.) 

3311.  Julia  R.  V.  Driggs 

3312.  Eben  Peek 

3313.  Mary  L.  A.  Peek  (Eben) 

3314.  Lotta  L.  Peek  (Mrs.  H.  Palmer  King) 

3315-  John  Robertson  

3316.  Alcxandrina  Robertson  (John) 

320 


When  Removed. 


June  12, 
June  12, 
June  12, 
Nov.  28, 
June  12, 
Mch.  10, 
Feb.  3, 
May  28, 
Jan.  9, 
Jan.    9, 


Dec. 

Sept. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Jan. 

Mch. 

Mch. 

May 

Nov. 


7, 

25, 

26, 

26, 

26, 

1, 

4, 

4, 

IS, 

12, 


895 
895 
895 
891 
895 
897 
892 
893 
895 
S95 


892 
890 
894 
894 
894 
896 
891 
891 
895 
891 


Oct.  21,  1896 
Oct.  21,  1896 

June  17,  1896 


Sept.  30,  1896 

Nov.  28,  1894 

Dec.  7,  1898 

Dec.  7,  1898 

Sept.  27,  1893 

Dec.  12,  1894 

Nov.  15,  1892 

Mch.  18,  1896 


Mch.  6,  1895 


Feb.  12,  1900 
Sept.  14,  189S 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3317.  Peter  B.  Shields  April  2,  1890 

3318.  Anne  P.  Roe  (wid.  Edward  P.) "  "      "      Dec.    I,    1897 

3319.  Martha    F.    Roe     (Mrs.     Edgar    G. 

Benedict)    "  "      " 

3320.  Annie  Fish   "  "       "      Dec.  14,  1898 

3321.  Jessie  B.  Knevals  (Charles  P.) "  "      " 

3322.  Charles  P.  Knevals April  6,  1890 

3323.  Mary  Estelle  Newell "  "      "       Nov.  16,  1892 

3324.  Josephine  A.  Everitt    {Mrs.   Charles 

R.  Morson)   "  "      "      April  15,  1896 

3325.  Albino,  Yale  {Mrs.  Ed.  J.  Wheeler)  . .     "  "      " 

3326.  Florence  Voorhees  "  "       " 

3327.  Florence   Ward   "  "       " 

3328.  Julia  Trowbridge  Seymour "  "      "      Jan.  22,  1899 

3329.  Bertha  Whittemore "  "      "      Oct.  28,   1891 

3330.  Marion  E.  Piatt  "  "      "      Feb.    7,    1894 

3331.  Mary  B.  Hull "  "      "      Nov.  28,  1894 

3332.  Harvey  M.  Munsell "  "       " 

3333-  Mary  C.  Munsell  (Harvey  M.) "  "      "      Nov.  13,  1890 

3334.  Mary  Isabel  Munsell  "  "      " 

3335-  Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Jr "  "       " 

3336.  Sadye  T.  Roe "  "      "      Mch.  2,   1892 

3337.  Edzvard  P.  Cutter "  "      "      June  11,  1898 

3338.  Louisa  F.  Boyd  (Samuel  M.) "  "      "      Oct.  14,  1896 

3339-  Grace  May  Hodson  "  "      " 

3340.  Frank  B.  Newell "  "      " 

3341.  George  W.  Jordan  "  " 

3342.  Robert  J.  McNickle  May  28,  1890    Mch.  28,  1894 

3343.  Deivi  H.  Jones "  "      "      Nov.  28,  1894 

3344.  George  B.  Sterling "  "      "      Jan.  26,   1898 

3345.  Frances  L.  Taintor  (Henry  F.) "  "      "      Mch.  29,  1893 

3346.  John  Ostrander  June  1,  1S90    Nov.  28,  1894 

3347-  Grace  M.  Sinclair "  "       "      Oct.    4,    1893 

3348.  J.  Miller  Crampton Oct.  1,  1890     Nov.  15,  1895 

3349.  Susie  F.  Crampton  (wid.  J.  Miller) . .      "  "      "      Oct.  21,  1896 

3350.  Fannie  W.  Embree  (wid.  Geo.  W.)..Dec.  3,  1890    Jan.  17,  1894 

3351.  Emily  W.  Bowne  (Edward  R.) "  "       "      Jan.  17,   1894 

3352.  Matthew  S.  Borden  Dec.  7,  1890 

3353-  Juha  E.  Haven  (wid.  Carolus) Jan.  28,  1891     April  12,  1893 

3354.  Eliza  S.  Haven  "  "      "      April  12,  1893 

3355-  Julia  Haven "  "       "      April  12,  1893 

3355/4-  Robert  B.  Fleming "  "      " 

3356.  Mary  A.  Fleming  (wid.  Wm.  E.)...     "  "       " 

3357.  Charles  D.  Brooks  "  "      " 

3358.  James  H.  McCurdy  "  ,T      "      Oct.  23,  1895 

3359.  Mary  A.  Pirrie  (John  K.) "  "      "      April  12,  1893 

3360.  Edith  J.  Hawley  (Mrs.  Williams) ..  .Feb.  I,   1891     June  6,    1894 

3361.  Sarah    Hawley     (Mrs.     T.    Halsted 

Myers)  "  "      " 

3362.  James  Taylor  Harrington "  "      " 

3363.  Carrie  E.  Grace "  "       " 

3364.  Shukrae  Amir  Alian  April  I.  1891     Sept.  28,  1892 

3365.  Dorman  T.  Warren "  "      "      Nov.  11,  1896 

3366.  Harriet  C.  Warren   (Dorman  T.)...     "  "      "      Nov.  11,  1896 

3367.  Joseph  Singleton  "  "      " 

321 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

jt0                           Name                                                  When  Received.  When  Removed. 

3368.  Henrietta  E.  Singleton   (Joseph) ...  .April  i;  1891  April  23,  1S94 

3369.  Fung  Hong  u      (t      u 

3370.  Ju  Yuk  u      u      tl 

3371.  Chu  Shuey 

3372.  Howard  S.  Borden April  5,  1891 

3373.  Charles  T.  Van  Winkle  "      "  Nov.  28,  1894 

3374.  Alfred  R.  Thoman  "      "      "  Dec.   8,    1897 

3375.  Jane  Wallace  Piatt June  7,  1891  Feb.    7,    1894 

3376.  Marie  B.  Poole  "      "      " 

3377.  John  S.  Macnab  Sept.  30,  189 1  Dec.   2,    1896 

3378.  Jeanie  G.  Macnab  (John  S.) "              "  Dec.   2,    1896 

3379.  Archibald  M.  Stewart April  11,  1894 

3380.  Agnes  O.  Stewart  (Archibald  M.)..     "      "      "  April  n,  1894 

3381.  John  Smith  "      "      '  Nov.  21,  1894 

3382.  Emma  Bogardus  .  •■ Dec.    2,  189 1 

3383-  John  Douglas  "      "      " 

3384.  Oscar  G.  Harrison  Jan.   14,   1894 

3385.  Robert  C.  Hamilton  "  Nov.  28,  1894 

3386.  Gilberta  A.  Dallas  (Alexander) "      "      "  Sept.  26,  1894 

3387.  Seth  M.  Millikcn  Dec.    6,  1891  Oct.  21,  1896 

3388.  Francis  B.  Elgas "  Oct.  17,  1894 

3389.  William  Taylor  Elgas "  Oct.  17,  1894 

3390.  Matthew  J.  Elgas,  Jr "      "  Oct.  17,  1894 

3391.  William  L.  Russell Feb.    3,  1892  Nov.  28,  1900 

3392.  Benjamin  J.  Jarrett  "       "       "  May  30,  1894 

3393.  Francis  Caruthcrs Feb.    7,  1892  Nov.  12,  1893 

3394.  Charles  W.  White Mch.  30,  1892  Feb.  14,  1894 

3395.  George  S.  Edgell   "      "      " 

3396.  Oliver  C.  Gardiner   Oct.  31,   1892 

3397.  Amos  H.  Stephens  June   1,  1892 

3398.  Alexander  McCubbin "      "      "  April  22,  1896 

3399.  Alison  M.  B.  McCubbin  (Alex.)....     "      "      "  April  22,  1896 

3400.  Gertrude  Moore  Pierce   (John) Sept.  28,  1892  May  27,  1893 

3401.  William  L.  Thacher   Nov.  30,  1892 

3402.  Charles  P.  Hallock "      "      "  Jan.    9,    1895 

3403.  John  Thorne  Feb.    1,1893  Oct.  21,  1896 

3404.  Ann  A.  Thorne  (John) "      "t      \\  Oct.  21,  1S96 

3405.  Emma  Scherb 

3406.  Elizabeth  C.  Warner  Feb.    5,  1893 

3407.  Laura  A.  Barrett Mch.  30,  1893 

3408.  Alexander  S.  McLeod "       "      "  Mch.  25,  1896 

3409.  Mabel  L.  Johnson   April  2,  1893  May  2,    1S94 

3410.  Alice  H.  Robinson   "       "      "  Nov.  28,  1900 

341 1.  Margaret  H.  Kemp   (George  W.)...June  4,  1893 

3412.  Jeanie  Macnab  "              "  Nov.  14,  1894 

3413.  Amelia  C.  Dailey  "      "      "  Feb.    3,    1897 

3414.  Vieva  P.  Fisher  (Joel  E.) "      "      " 

3415.  Louise  E.  Stowell  (William  L.) " 

3416.  Henry  A.  Stimson  "      "      "  Oct.  21,   1896 

3417-  Alice  B.  Stimson  (Henry  A.) "      "      "  Oct.  21,  1896 

3418.  Alice  M.  Stimson "      "      "  Oct.  21,  1896 

3419.  Julia  C.  Stimson  "      "       "  Oct.  21,   1896 

3420.  Grace  B.  Marshall  (wid.  Robert)....     "      "      " 

3421.  Fannie  P.  Carstein  "      "      "  Feb.    3,    1897 

3422.  Ferdinand  S.  Carstein  "      "      "  Feb.    3,    1897 

322 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No.  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3423.  Fanny  Schmitt  Zollcr June  4,  1893 

3424.  David  Stevenson  "  "  "      Nov.  28,  1900 

3425.  Walter  M.  Phillips "  "  "      Nov.  28,  1900 

3426.  Peter  Almquist  "  "  " 

3427.  Charles  A.  Bruce  "  "  " 

3428.  Martin  H.  Early Oct.  8,  1893 

3429.  Clarence  W.  Bowen  "  "  "      Oct.  21,   1896 

3430.  Roxanna  W.  Bowen  (Clarence  W.)  . .  "  "  "      Oct.  21,   1896 

3431.  Will  A.  Babbit   "  "  "      June  19,  1895 

3432.  Edwin  F.  Tripp "  "  "      Jan.   15,   1896 

3433-  Waldo  H.  Sherman  "  "  " 

3434.  Abbie  P.  Sherman  (Waldo  H.) "  "  " 

3435.  Clarence  W.  Eckardt "  "  " 

3436.  May  P.  Harrison  (wid.  Oscar  G.)...  "  "  "      April  15,  1896 

3437.  Edward  W.  Browning "  "  " 

3438.  Annie  E.  McCubbin "  "  "      April  22,  1896 

3439.  Sarah  McCubbin  "  "  "      April  22,  1896 

3440.  Mary  J.  Little  (Francis) Dec.  3,  1893    Mch.  30,  189S 

3441.  Henry  A.  Newell,  Jr "  "  "      Oct.  21,   1896 

3442.  Mary  F.  Newell  (Henry  A.,  Jr.)....  "  "  "      Oct.  21,  189*6 

3443.  Eleanor  Close "  "  "      Oct.  21,  1896 

3444.  Martha  Close  "  " 

3445.  Rebecca  Close "  "  "      Oct.  21,  1896 

3446.  Chester  Holcombe "  "  " 

3447.  Olive  K.  Holcombe    (Chester) "  "  "      July  28,   1896 

3448.  Margaret  Smith  (John) "  "  "       Nov.  14,  1900 

3449.  Hubert  E.  Rogers   "  "  "      April  8,  1896 

3450.  Ellen  C.   Parsons   "  "  " 

3451.  Fred  H.  Meserye "  "  "      Oct.  21,  1896 

3452.  Eugene  C.  Savidge "  "  " 

3453.  Isaac  D.  Blodgett  "  "  " 

3454.  Mary  L.  Blodgett  (Isaac  D.) "  "  " 

3455.  Harriette  M.  Blodgett "  "  " 

3456.  Adelbert  L.  Eastman "  "  " 

3457.  Josephine  A.  Eastman  (Adelbert  L.)  "  "  " 

3458.  Tom  Chun "  "  " 

3459.  Jane  Taylor  McKewan  (J.  P.) "  "  " 

3460.  Talemadge  S.   Hand   "  "  "      Feb.    8.    1899 

3461.  Katherine  W.  Hand  (Talemadge  S.)  "  "  "      Feb.    8,    1899 

3462.  Harrington  S.  Paine  "  "  " 

3463.  Jeannie  L.  Jillson Feb.  4,  1894    Oct.  21,  1896 

3464.  Henri  P.  Hoffer  "  "  " 

3465.  Clarence  E.  Dobbin  "  "  "      Oct.  21,  1896 

3466.  John  H.  Abegg  "  "  " 

3467.  Isabel   McKinstry   (Robert) "  "  " 

3468.  Chu  Fu  Kin  Pai "  "  " 

3469.  Julia  B.  Sutton  . ._ "  "  "      Nov.  18,  1896 

3470.  Catherine  L.  Everitt  (wid.  Edward)  .  "  "  " 

3471.  EllenB.  Cutter  (John  A.) "  "  "       May  29,  1895 

3472.  Amelia  Freeman  (wid.  Alfred) "  "  " 

3473.  F.  Burton  Otis   "  "  "      Jan.   18,   1899 

3474.  Hermine  J.  Wedckind "  "  " 

3475.  Bella  C.  Lyall "  "  " 

3476.  Ernest  N.  Weston   April   1,  1894 

3477.  George  L.  Leonard "  "  " 

323 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 


No.  Name.  When 

3478.  James  E.  Simmons April 

3479.  Charles  A.  A.  During " 

3480.  Jane  During  (Charles  A.  A.) " 

3481.  Charles  E.  Mitchell  " 

3482.  Cornelia  E.  Mitchell  (Charles  E.)...      " 
3483-  George  H.  Mitchell   " 

3484.  Madeline    Warren    (Mrs.    Harris   B. 

Fisher)    " 

3485.  Helen  Lincoln   " 

3486.  Mary  A.  Dozvney  " 

3487.  John  Irving  Downey  " 

3488.  Francis  R.  Parker  " 

3489.  William  G.  Pilgrim  " 

3490.  Charles  L.  Thorne  June 

3491.  William  H.  Whitney  " 

3492.  Emma  G.  Whitney   (William  H.)...      " 

3493.  Frederick  E.  Hawkesworth " 

3494.  Charles  H.  Shepherd " 

3495.  Daisy  F.  Rockwell " 

3496.  Leonora  Weigel  (wid.  Alfred) " 

3497.  Mabel  C.  Mead  " 

3498.  Alfred  Vedder Oct. 

3499.  Charles  R.  Morson " 

3500.  Frederick  J.  Voss " 

3501.  Mary  J.  Fisk  (wid.  Henry  B.) Dec. 

3502.  Elizabeth  L.  Ely  " 

3503.  Mary  E.  Lucas  (George  C.) " 

3504.  Susan  M.  Ketcham " 

3505.  Mira  C.  Healy " 

3506.  Stephen  Young  Feb. 

3507.  Aurora  T.  Green   (Horace) " 

350S.  Linna  C.  Bixby  (A.  William) " 

3509.  Thomas  A.  Fair  " 

3510.  Annie  C.  Fair  (Thomas  A.) " 

351 1.  Frank  L.  Underwood   " 

3512.  Theodosia  S.  Underwood  (Frank  L.)     " 

3513.  Grace  H.  Underwood   " 

3514.  Nellie  L.  Simmons  (John  P.) " 

3515.  Carl  J.  Carlbcrg   " 

3516.  Lillian  Kemp   " 

3517.  Maude  F.  Reynolds  April 

3518.  Anselm  Schaff  " 

3519.  Lucile  H.  Stimson  " 

3520.  Frederick  G.  Hodson   " 

3521.  Bernard  Angel  June 

3522.  Fanny  B.  Angel  (Bernard) Oct. 

3523.  Helen  E.  Dana   June 

3524.  Emma  L.  Dana  " 

3525.  Edith  Hoover Oct. 

3526.  Elrina  Grosjean   June 

3527.  Helen  Wilson " 

3528.  Alvan  W.  Perry  Oct.  ' 

3528K'.  William  R.  Arnold " 

3529.  Sophia  A.  Walker   (Mrs.) Dec. 

3530.  Isabella  Ditjen  (Mrs.) " 

324 


Received. 
I,    1894 


When  Removed. 
Jan.  8,  1897 
June  5,  1896 
June   5,    1896 


" 

" 

Nov.  28,  1900 

3, 

1894 

Mch.  28,  1900 
Feb.  26,  1896 
Feb.  26,  1896 
Sept.  26,  1894 

Sept.  30,  1896 

7, 

1894 

April  15,  1896 
April  19,  1899 

2, 

(C 

1894 

tt 

a 

Dec.  9,  1896 
Oct.  21,  1896 
Oct.  21,  1896 
Oct.  7,  1896 
Feb.  17,  1897 

3; 

1895 

a 
a 

Nov.  28,  1900 
Dec.  30,  1896 

tt 

a 
tt 

Oct.  21,  1896 
Oct.  21,  1806 
Oct.  21,  1896 
May  26,  1897 

« 

tt 

Mch.  24.  1897 
Nov.  28,  1900 

7, 

1895 

Mch.  29,  1899 

tt 

Oct.  28,  1896 

u 

tt 

tt 

Oct.  21,  1896 

2, 

1895 

6, 

1895 

2, 

1895 

tt 

Oct.  21,  1806 
Oct.  21,  1806 

6, 

1895 

Sept.  29,  1897 

2, 
«« 

1895 

Feb.  17,  1897 

6, 

1895 

Nov.  16,  1808 

T. 

1805 

Oct.  21,  1896 

Chronological   List   of   Members 


No.  Name.  When  Received. 

3531.  Shearjashub  Bourne Dec.  1,  1895 

3532.  Susan  K.  Bourne  (Shearjashub)....     "  "      " 

3533.  Edgar  K.  Bourne  

3534-  Sydney  H.  Bourne  

3535.  Mary  J.  Bourne "  "      " 

3536.  Rose  M.  Bourne  "  "      " 

3537-  John  W.  Follett "  "      " 

3538.  Augusta  M.  Follett  (John  W.) "  "      " 

3539.  Bessie  A.  Follett "  "      " 

3540.  Arthur  Toan "  "      " 

3541.  Nathaniel  M.  Pratt  "  "      " 

3542.  Ellen  W.  Dimmick  "  "      " 

3543.  Margaret  Gunn  Feb.  2,  1896 

3544.  Stephen  Shahzadeyian "  "       " 

3545.  Nishan  M.  Boyajian " 

3546.  Garabed  Sachaklian  " 

3547.  Cornelius  Beck "  "      " 

3548.  Roland  C.  Cook "  "      " 

3549.  Charles  B.  Bliss April  5,  1896 

3550.  James  Martin  

3551.  Margaret  T.  Martin  (James) "  "      " 

3552.  Margaret  E.  Martin "  "      " 

3553-  Jospehine  J.  Martin  "  "      " 

3554.  Isabella  W.  Siegrist  (Mrs.  John) 

3555.  Emily  E.  Siegrist  "  "      " 

3556.  Agnes  L.  Fish  "  "      " 

3557.  Grace  Ives  Washburn  "  "      " 

3558.  Edith  Waid "  "      " 

3559.  Abigail  Kean  (wid.  James) June  7,  1896 

3560.  Ida    M.     Salmon     (Mrs.    Robert    S. 

Stapleton)  Dec.  6,  1896 

3561.  Edward  W.  Peet "  "       " 

3562.  Lucy  H.  Peet  (Edward  W.) "  "      " 

3563.  Kwai  F.  Pang  Feb.  7,  1897 

3564.  Ella  R.  McCloy  (William  H.) "  "       " 

3565.  William  H.  McCloy "  "      " 

3566.  Tom  Leng  "  "      " 

3567.  William  E.  Chamberlin April  4,  1897 

3568.  Cyrus  W.  Minor "  "      " 

3569.  Jennie  A.  Minor  (Cyrus  W.) "  "      " 

3570.  Herbert  D.  Minor "  "      " 

3571.  Grace  E.  Lowe June  6,  1897 

3572.  Elisha  V.  Bladen "  "      " 

3573.  Irving  R.  Fisher,  Jr "  "      " 

3574.  Mary  B.  Fisher "  "      " 

3575.  Janet  R.  Wilson  "  "      " 

3576.  Lizzie  Miller  (wid.  Roswell  C.) Dec.  5,  1897 

3577.  Roberta  F.  Miller "  "      " 

3578.  Mabel  R.  Miller  "  "      " 

3579.  Alice  R.  Fish  "  "      " 

3580.  Pamela  W.  Lyall "  "      " 

3581.  Ada  M.  Bigelow  (Mrs.  Wm.  J.  Finch)  Feb.  6.  1898 

3582.  Menzies  Macadam  (Miss) "  "      " 

3583.  Roderick  A.  Dorman "  "      " 

3584.  Hamilton  A.  Gordon  "  "      " 

325 


kVhen 

Removed. 

Oct. 

21, 

I8q6 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Feb. 

17, 

1897 

Mch. 

31, 

1897 

Nov. 

28, 

1900 

July 

8, 

1896 

Mch. 

10, 

i8q7 

Apri 

I  12, 

1900 

Oct. 

21, 

1896 

Nov.  28,  1900 
Nov.  28,  1900 


Oct.  25,  1899 
Mch.  29,  1899 


Sept.  13,  1899 


Dec.  14,  1898 
Feb.  13,  1898 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

Name  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3585.  Clarence  T.  Gordon  J*  J  J  jgj 

3586.  Charles  E.  Jefferson April  3,  1898 

3587.  Belle  Jefferson  (Charles  E.)  ... 

3588.  Mildred  H.  Fanning  (Neuville    O.) .      {<  <(       <(      April  12,  i»99 

3589.  Margaret  S.  Stephens  (Amos  H.)...     ((  M      <( 

3590.  William  G.  Martin  „  „      tt 

3591.  Alfred  Martin   „  „      (i 

3592.  William  I.  Finch „  „      „ 

3593.  Warren  W.  Ward M  „      „ 

3594.  Alice  G.  Raymond  Q  Q 

3595.  Alexander  Frazer  -June  5,  1898 

3596.  Isabel  A.  Crosby  (wid.  Wellington)  . 

3597.  Herbert  G.  Wadhams  „  „      M      Ma?   2-    x900 

3598.  William  R.  Fearn •  •  • M  „      „ 

3599.  Doretta  K.  Fearn  (William  R.) u  <(      (( 

3600.  Evelyn  Batchelder M  (.  (( 

3601.  Thomas  Edward  Barr . . . •••  u  „  „ 

3602.  Hannah  G.  Barr  (Thomas  Edward) .  (<  |(  M 

3603.  K.  Beatrice  Barr u 

3604.  /fl«t«  Surridge ■■■••  Q  Q 

3605.  Mary  E.  F.  Smith  (wid.  Emory  W.)  .  Oct.  2,  1898 

3606.  Thomas  G.  Barr  M  u  u 

3607.  Walter  B.  Mahony  „  ((  tt 

3608.  Philip  W.  Ayers u  „  tt 

3609.  Margaret  Parker    M  M  „ 

3610.  Pawg  -Swey (<  „  ,, 

3611.  Mark  Thun „  Q 

3612.  Hartwell  S.  Greene  Dec.  4,  1898 

3613.  Lillian  Cowles  ((  „  „       «•     tI,    lSoo 

3614.  Alice  E.  Sanborn  „  „  „      bePt  I3'  I&" 

3615.  Amzi  Lewis  Camp  •_•• u  u  „ 

3616.  Antoinette  Camp  (Amzi  Lewis) u  u  |( 

3617.  Frederick  Augustus  Camp ((  u  M 

3618.  Antoinette  Louise  Camp M  „  (( 

3619.  Olinda  Anne  Camp  u  „  „ 

3620.  Kate  Cristine  Camp M  „  <( 

3621.  Clara  Matilda  Camp a  „  „ 

3622.  Charles  C.  Bailey  M  ,4 

3623.  Charles  W.Robinson  ...............  „  M  M 

3624.  Sarah  A.  Robinson  (Charles  W.)...  u  u  f| 

3625.  Emma  S.  Warren  ft  „  u 

3626.  Mary  F.  Thompson  (t  M  „ 

3627.  Charles  C.  Gates M  „  ,( 

3628.  Jennie  McGee M  M  ,, 

3629.  Edward  C.  Warren H  „  ,4 

3630.  Ii/ias  £jber •  •  •  •  •  •  •  • 

3631.  Alice  Longfellow  Cilley  (Mrs.  Harry  u  u  u 

Hibbard  Weist)   

3632.  Flora  A.  Linnell  Fe>  5>  1899 

3633.  Bessie  Adams M  u  „ 

3634.  Rebecca  Knight  M  M  „ 

3635.  Charles  B.  Doohttle „  M  „ 

3636.  Helene  La  Bonte  |(  „  „ 

3637.  /.mM  Somcrville M  ,(  M 

1.63S.  Anna  Dreadon  McGonigle _, 

3639.  Stefano  L.  Testa April  2,  1899     May  23,  1900 

326 


Chronological   List   of   Members 

No  Name  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3640.  Fidelia  C.  Warner  April  2,  1899 

3641.  Sarah  Hunt "      u      (( 

3642.  Katharine  H.  Duncan ((      (( 

3643.  Sarah  May  Tice  " 

3644.  Katherine  Anna  Ruehl  

3645.  Adolphe  Weber  '       " 

3646.  Frederick  Phelps  Porter "      |'      (t 

3647.  Tom  Sing  "      "      (t 

3648.  Richard  Tweedy  . . . 

3649.  Henry  Edwards  Wright "      " 

3650.  John  R.  Stezuart  

3651.  Amelia  A.  Stewart  (John  R.) 

3652.  William  L.  Ramsay  June  4,  1899 

3653.  Agnes  D.  Ramsay  (William  L.) "      "(      "( 

3654.  John  IMunro   "      ((      (( 

3655.  Anna  R.  Munro  (John) 

3656.  Elizabeth  S.  Spring  (wid.  Marshall).     "      "      [] 

3657.  Bertha  R.  Spring  "(      "(      t( 

3658.  Julia  E.  Haven  (wid.  Carolus) 

3659.  Elizabeth  Sanderson  Haven  

3660.  Julia  Haven "  (t 

3661.  Benjamin  W.  Tice  •.•••■ (t 

3662.  Mary  E.  Tice  (Benjamin  W.) ' 

3663.  J.  Raymond  Ellinwood  " 

3664.  Channel  P.  Townsley  "t      "t      (( 

3665.  Theodore  Perrin  

3666.  Richard  C.  Rendell "      "      u 

3667.  George  W.  Lock 

3668.  Lizette  Herrmann 

3669.  Annie  S.  Joseph  "(      "t      u 

3670.  Sophia  Benz   t      u      u 

3671.  William  Wesley  Carter u      <( 

3672.  Walter  Palmer  Anderton 

3673.  Florence    McKesson    Eckardt    (Clar- 

ence W.)  Oct.  1,  1899 

3674.  William  H.  Rath "  |J      || 

3675.  Marian  Folsom  Rath  (William  H.).  " 

3676.  Helen  Isabel  Matthew "  "      " 

3677.  Mark  Chung 

3678.  Estelle  Hynes  Warner  (Franklin  H.)  Dec.  3,  1899 

3679.  Kevoek  Boyajian  ._ "  "      " 

3680.  Jane  Mathews   (wid.  John) 

3681.  Marion  W.  Mathews  " 

3682.  Grace  C.  Nelson  (Frank  G.) ||  ||      "( 

3683.  Elizabeth  Richards  "  "t 

3684.  Annie  M.  McEwan ||  "      " 

3685.  Jane  P.  McEwan "  "      || 

3686.  Emily  L.  McEwan  "  "      " 

3687.  George  N.  Edwards 

3688.  Arthur  J.  Wyman "      "      a 

3689.  Robert  Roy  McGeorge  "{      "t      u 

3690.  Thomas  C.  Ham  

3691.  Margaret  S.  Rehn  (Frank  K.  M.)...     "      ^      " 

3692.  Annie  L.  Partridge "      "      "t 

3693.  Katharine  Richards 

3694.  Joseph  H.  Cofiield 

327 


History  of  The  Broadway  Tabernacle  Church 

No  Name.  When  Received.   When  Removed. 

3695.  Frank  K.  M.  Rchn,  Jr Dec.  3,  1899 

3696.  Harriet  Burhans  "  " 

3697.  Hedwig  Liebl 

3698.  George  H.  Dunham  Feb.  4,  1900 

3699.  Julia  E.  Dunham  (George  H.) 

3700.  Margaret  Young  

3701.  Harry  Finch  Howes 

3702.  John  Soha 

3703.  T.  Myrddin  Jones 

3704.  Jennie  Hartley  Jones  (T.  Myrddin).  " 

3705.  Ann  Augusta  Coit  ( Alonzo  H.) " 

3706.  Margaret  Burnet  Phelps  (Dudley)..  " 

3707.  Alice  M.  Dean 

3708.  Maud  V.  Gates  

3709.  Walter  Richards  Wheeler  "  "      " 

3710.  Joseph  G.  Coney April  1,  1900 

371 1.  Watson  W.  Hurlburt  "  "      " 

3712.  Mary  L.  Sproul  " 

3713.  Mary  Agnes  Teasdale  " 

3714.  Arthur  C.  Rowe  "  " 

3715.  Matilda  A.  Rowe  (Arthur  C.) "  " 

3716.  Rufus  H.  Rowe   "  " 

3717.  Kenneth  P.  Rowe " 

3718.  William  L.  Hope  Simpson "  "      " 

3719.  Lois  M.  Townsley  (Channel  P.)....  "  "      " 

3720.  Maria  L.  Tompkins  (wid.  Jordan  D.)  "  "      " 

3721.  Alfred  W.  Fisher  "  "       " 

3722.  Isabel  Fisher  (Alfred  W.) "  "      " 

3723.  Ella  Cameron  Lockerby  " 

3724.  Anna  M.  Lucken "  " 

3725.  Rose  Lynch "  " 

3726.  Zurvina  T.  Gates  (Royal  A.) "  "      " 

3727.  Herbert  Mead "  "      " 

3728.  Isabella  O.  Rough June  3.  1900     Nov.   7,   1900 

3729.  Jessie  Comfort "  " 

3730.  George  S.  Johnson  "  " 

3731.  Mary  J.  Gordon  " 

3732.  Olga  A.  Hclenius  "  " 

3733-  James  Reid  

3734.  Thorn  Quing Oct.  7,  1900 

3735-  Tom  Jen "  " 

3736.  Anna  E.  Gainstrom  "  "      " 

3737.  Anna  C.  Mellick  (wid.  James  B.)...Dec.  2,  1900 

3738.  Anna  C.  Mellick  " 

3739.  Henry  S.  Mellick  "  "      " 

3740.  Emily  Herrmann "  "      " 

3741.  Adele  Hunter  (Andrew) "  "      " 

3742.  Charles  R.  Young "  "      " 

3743.  Grant  Stanley "  "      " 

3744.  Elisabeth  Wiggins  (Thomas) "  "      " 

3745.  Louis  R.  Kaufman  "  "      " 

3746.  David  H.  Holmes "  "      " 

3747.  Maud  A.  Holmes  (David  H.) "  "      " 

3748.  William  R.  McFarland "  "      " 

3749.  Elizabeth  M.  Harris "  "      " 

328 


SUMMARY   OF   ADDITIONS   AND    REMOVALS   IN   THE   BROADWAY 
TABERNACLE    CHURCH    SINCE   ITS    ORGANIZATION. 


Additions. 

Removals. 

W  <A 

DATE. 

c 
.9 

0 

a 

a. -s 

C  0) 

s3 

S  w 
£  s 

0 

& 

I* 

"3 

V 

•O 

11 

0  0 

a 

Is 

(1  k 

0 

2 

t> 

0 

V 

I* 

x'e 

•3 

0 

0  0 

J 

a, 

Pi 

H 

►J 

Q 

W 

< 

H 

H 

July   6,  1840. . . 

67 

67 

67 

March  1,  1841. . . 

37 

3 

40 

107 

Feb.  28,  1842... 

87 

15 

102 

7 

1 

8 

201 

Feb.   27,  1843.. . 

63 

59 

122 

33 

2 

35 

288 

Feb.   27,1844... 

58 

37 

95 

29 

4 

33 

35o 

Feb.   25,  1845-.. 

19 

17 

36 

29 

2 

1 

32 

354 

Feb.   24,  1846... 

38 

8 

46 

38 

1 

1 

40 

360 

March  9,  1847. .. 

36 

50 

86 

40 

2 

2 

44 

402 

Feb.  29,1848... 

23 

19 

42 

32 

3 

35 

409 

Feb.   27,  1849... 

25 

12 

37 

39 

7 

46 

400 

Feb.  26,  1850... 

22 

'7 

39 

24 

10 

1 

35 

404 

Feb.  25,  1851... 

24 

5 

29 

39 

3 

42 

391 

March  1,  1852... 

39 

24 

63 

78 

7 

5 

2 

92 

362 

March  1,  1853.. . 

19 

15 

34 

40 

5 

23 

2 

70 

326 

Feb.  27,  1854... 

26 

26 

32 

8 

14 

54 

298 

Feb.  27,1855... 

IS 

6 

21 

43 

2 

5 

50 

269 

Feb.  26,1856... 

20 

11 

31 

27 

2 

6 

35 

265 

Feb.  24,1857... 

27 

11 

38 

24 

1 

8 

33 

270 

March  1,  1858... 

18 

4 

22 

14 

3 

1 

18 

274 

March  1,  1859.. . 

60 

4i 

10 1 

29 

4 

5 

1 

39 

336 

Feb.  28,  i860. . . 

44 

9 

53 

27 

2 

3 

1 

33 

356 

Feb.  26,  1861 . . . 

39 

5 

44 

30 

3 

33 

367 

Feb.  26,  1862... 

102 

12 

114 

22 

7 

3 

1 

33 

448 

Feb.  24,1863... 

38 

16 

54 

3° 

5 

1 

36 

466 

March  1,  1864... 

35 

28 

63 

22 

10 

8 

1 

41 

488 

Feb.  28,1865... 

39 

8 

47 

32 

5 

1 

38 

497 

Feb.   27,  1866. .. 

33 

13 

46 

29 

6 

35 

508 

Feb.  26,  1867... 

29 

22 

51 

3i 

12 

43 

516 

Feb.  28,  1868... 

38 

22 

60 

33 

8 

41 

535 

March  3,  1869. .. 

37 

23 

60 

33 

6 

1 

40 

555 

March  2,  1870. .. 

23 

25 

48 

43 

5 

1 

49 

554 

March  1,  1871... 

19 

14 

33 

34 

8 

42 

547 I3 

Feb.   28,1872... 

38 

24 

62 

25 

6 

1 

32 

57813 

Dec.  31,  1872I.. 

20 

9 

'i* 

3° 

19 

4 

23 

585 

"  1873... 

90 

46 

136 

29 

8 

37 

683 

"  1874... 

55 

39 

94 

13 

12 

1 

26 

75i 

"   "  1875... 

74 

8S 

159 

37 

9 

1 

47 

863 

"   "  1876... 

60 

90 

150 

29  0 

M 

43 

97o 

«'   "  1877... 

56 

43 

99 

109  3 

11 

12 

1 

133 

936 

"   "  1878... 

48 

25 

73 

31 

10 

41 

968 

"  1879... 

52 

15 

67 

30 

124 

42 

993 

"   "  1880... 

60 

21 

81 

1  29 

18* 

47 

1,027 

"   "  1881... 

47 

12 

59 

37 

17 

54 

1,032 

"  1882... 

42 

15 

.. 

57 

22 

12 

1 

35 

1,054 

"   "  1883... 

42 

19 

61 

22 

8 

3° 

1,085 

"  1884... 

60 

22 

82 

32 

16 

48 

1,119 

"    "  1885... 

40 

19 

59 

42 

186 

60 

1,118 

"  1886... 

40 

29 

69 

24 

13 

2 

39 

1,148 

"   "  1887... 

38 

33 

.. 

7i 

3o 

12 

42 

i,i77 

"    "  1888... 

58 

16 

74 

39 

7 

46 

1,205 

"  1889... 

38 

25 

63 

40 

15 

55 

1)213 

"   "  1890... 

35 

24 

59 

37 

15 

52 

1,220 

"    "  1891... 

26 

13 

39 

54 

16 

1 

70 

1,189 

"   "  1892... 

11 

1 

12 

34 

19 

53 

1,148 

"  1893... 

46 

14 

60 

64 

26 

90 

1,118 

"   "  1894... 

30 

13 

43 

84 

207 

4 

196 

313 

85i13 

"  1895... 

31 

6 

11 

48 

47 

188 

65 

83313 

"  1896... 

13 

7 

4 

24 

1189 

9 

127 

73° 

"   "  1897... 

10 

8 

2 

20 

2810 

14 

1 

10 

53 

697 

"   "  1898... 

35 

16 

1 

52 

24 

9 

1 

34 

71611 

«   "  1899... 

47 

'9 

66 

19 

14 

5 

38 

751 1* 

"    "  igco... 

42 

10 

1 

53 

3i 

13 

2 

31 

77 

718 

1  Beginning  Dec,  1872,  statistics  are  reported  at  end  of  calendar  year.     2  Letter  returned  not  used. 

3  90  to  Bethany  Church.  4  1  not  previously  reported.  B  not  previously  reported. 

6  5  not  previously  reported.  7  15  not  previously  reported.  8  3  not  previously  reported. 

8  66  to  Manhattan  Church.  10  13  to  Manhattan  Church. 

i'  On  recount  corrected  in  1899  to  723.  13  On  recount  corrected  in  1900  to  742. 

13  Records  incomplete. 

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